Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scientifically established that many persons can be made ill by exposure to intense smoke from others. In addition, a vast majority of the non-smokers find such exposure uncomfortable and unpleasant. It is much too serious a problem to have fun poked by a tongue-in-cheek essay...
...Smoke machines flood the stage with a primordial haze. Colored lights flash, and chain-mail costumes shine in the gloom. A guitar swoops through a sonic blizzard that might have been whipped up by Led Zeppelin. Whirling at the center of this musical maelstrom is a lanky, dark-haired lout. He shouts in a girlish tenor, drops his kimono, strips to hot pants and tosses roses to adoring teenyboppers...
...generally recommend Negril, in Jamaica," said the consultant, who works at Whole-World Travel and would not disclose her name. "Good smoke, nice beaches, quiet, relaxed atmosphere...
...will save the birds," said a young militiaman from the Mourabitoun [garrison] of the leftist Independent Nasserite Movement. Like the corpse, much of the town was burning; flames crackled inside the solidly built houses of what was once a well-to-do community of 28,000, mostly Christians. Smoke wafted over the debris-cluttered streets and rose in a solid sheet that was visible for miles around. A gas tank exploded with a dull thump; an automatic rifle opened fire in the distance...
LIFESTYLE. While such personal habits as smoking and drinking alcohol have long been linked with cancer, the researchers noted an intriguing new finding: for people who both drink and smoke, the risk of cancer appears to rise proportionately higher than for those who do only one of these things. The report also implicates diet; for example, the incidence of bowel cancer seems to increase with the amount of meat and fatty foods consumed. Cancer may also be linked with dietary deficiencies; one researcher pointed out that an absence of vitamin A may contribute to the development of several kinds...