Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forty young Lakota warriors stand in prayer at the edge of a South Dakota pasture. They bless themselves with sage smoke and thank the spirit of the buffalo that is about to give up its life. A few bison look up from their grazing as a pickup truck churns slowly across the field. Then the crack of a rifle scatters the herd: Rocky Afraid-of-Hawk drops a yearling bull with one clean shot. The teenage warriors, dressed in Fila sneakers and No Fear sweatshirts, scramble in for a closer look as the older men skin the carcass. Later...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Why can't Johnny smoke? Because President Clinton says so, that's why. Clinton declared tobacco an addictive drug today, saying cigarette marketing which produced an epidemic of young smokers was "no accident." Also no accident, the presidential timing. The FDA had a slew of stricter rules on the sale and marketing of tobacco products ready last year, but as the President prepares for the Democratic National Convention, his Rose Garden assault on the tobacco industry will doubtless play favorably in the polls. The new FDA rules are intended to cut the number of teen smokers...
HOOKED ON SMOKE...
...many humans unable to kick the cigarette habit, it seems superfluous that Italian researchers have tried to duplicate this condition in rats [HEALTH, July 29]. Millions of lives could have been saved if we had heeded the observations of thoracic surgeons instead of relying on the effect of tobacco smoke on other species. BINA ROBINSON, Director Citizens for Planetary Health Swain, New York...
...Manchu mustache--knocking on the door of a future Senator and saying, "If you've got a little time to devote to the search for truth, some folks in our room are carrying on an experiment in whether the experience of using marijuana is enhanced if you smoke it while listening through earphones to A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum...