Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well known that cigarette smokers are more susceptible than non-smokers to heart attacks caused by arterial thrombosis, or clotting. A physician at Tufts-New England Medical Center now suggests why. Dr. Peter Levine reports in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, that smoking accelerates the activity of platelets, the blood components that aid in the clotting process by sticking together. Levine bases his finding on an 18-month study of 27 healthy male and female volunteers who had blood samples drawn from their arms every ten minutes during the test periods. Once the subjects' usual clotting...
...Smoke poured out of the fourth-floor Centry suite, as firemen tossed furniture, paper, a firedoor and blinds out of the suite...
Hard Drugs. At first the Bollinger gang rounded up gamblers and other troublemakers, but then it started its own reign of terror. Some gang members began to smoke pot, and later took to hard drugs, including heroin. Dr. John Riley, the village's only physician, was bullied into supplying them with drugs and forced to give them methadone when the heroin ran low. So persistent were the demands that Riley, 47, was driven to a nervous breakdown. He died of a heart attack this July...
...steel mills, bending elbows with the locals and satisfying himself that he still talks their language, that he throws around enough 'shits' and 'motherfuckers' that they don't see he is a high-priced journalist working for a slick new magazine in New York, far away from the smoke belching out of the blast furnaces...
...show featured a reflected geodosic sphere, assorted strobes, police car lights and a multicolor remote control spotlight that ranged around the set and the audience, looming 20 feet above the stage. Visual affects climaxed during the 18-minute version of the AM hit "Frankenstein" when Winter released a heavy smoke screen of CO2 gas that enveloped the stage and choked front row spectators...