Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doctors have long known that lung cancer, which kills 160,000 Americans each year, takes a heavier toll among black Americans, particularly black men, than among whites. In part that's because 34% of black men in the U.S. smoke cigarettes, compared with 28% of white men. (Black women tend to smoke less than white women.) It also has to do with differences in income and access to medical care. But there has always been a lingering suspicion that some of the gap might be due to either overt or subconscious discrimination. A study in last week's New England...
...kids gather in the backyard of the home of a sophomore. There's talk of a keg in the basement, and a steady stream of hopefuls goes downstairs to check it out. They return, disappointed that there's no keg but sporting Cokes spiked with bourbon. There's more smoke in the air than in a New York City bar, and not all of it comes from cigarettes. In a corner of the yard, three kids are smoking marijuana...
...school has little control over what students do off campus. But because tobacco smoke can disguise marijuana and is a threat to safety and health, Webster Groves High is smoke-free. "Only six years ago, we allowed smoking right on campus," says assistant principal John Raimondo. Before the days of walkie-talkies, says sophomore Justin Mahley, his brothers' friends smoked bong bowls of marijuana in the courtyard. But, he says, "they don't let anything slide anymore...
...blows smoke...
...shouldn't smoke," Tamika says when she's gone...