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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When the smoke--well, the fog of diplomacy--cleared, Saddam Hussein emerged whole from last week's confrontation with the U.S., ready to live and cheat again. For that he can thank Kofi Annan. Three times the U.N. Secretary-General insinuated himself into the showdown. By the time he was done, he had saved Saddam from the most serious attack on his regime since the Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's in Charge Here, Anyway? | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...college kids going up in smoke? An alarming report shows that smoking on campuses has shot up 28% since 1993. The habit is more widespread among whites than blacks or Asians and more prevalent at less academically competitive schools. But the older, the wiser: seniors are less likely than freshmen to indulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Infants, hold your noses. Lactating moms who smoke seem to produce breast milk that tastes like, well, a dirty ashtray. One cigarette is enough to bring on the foul flavor--and it does so within half an hour of lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...know you shouldn't smoke. You know all that tar and nicotine are destroying your heart and lungs, not to mention what they will eventually do, if you're a man, to your sex life. But if you, like 48 million other Americans, are still smoking, you've got another chance to quit this Thursday as part of the American Cancer Society's 22nd annual Great American Smokeout. One in 4 smokers is expected at least to try kicking the habit. Nobody says it will be easy. A national survey made public last week by the Hazelden Foundation of Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling It Quits | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...brisk walk across the bridge from the Alewife T-stop, Fresh Pond's poor excuse for a mall engulfs the horizon. However, nestled between the shadows of Staples and Toys `R' Us is Jack's Smoke Shop, housing both Megabucks lotto tickets and Macanudo cigars in a single cramped room. According to owner Sonny Cimenian, Jack's boasts 135 cigar brand names along with pipe tobacco, humidors and Keno. Cigar smokers trek from as far as Hyde Park and other distant outposts of Boston to browse through the boxes of Ashtons, Padrons and Montecristos lining the shelves. Sonny will...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: on the T again OUTWARD BOUND | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

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