Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrive at the Suffolk Downs horse track a little after 1 p.m. on President's Day, and soon I'm inside the grandstand. Taking a cursory stroll down the length of the large room, the place has the feel of an oversized, smoke-filled branch of the DMV. Except that people aren't filling out vehicle registration applications or pouring over license renewal instructions; what they're doing, mostly, is studying the racing form. I pick up a copy and look it over, and it isn't long before I'm ready to, as they say, make a wager...
...professional driver," says Erica, a blond senior at Valencia High School. She's usually the only girl out here, and you can see that's part of the thrill--to draw in some slacker with nothing but an art-project hairdo and more hormones than r.p.m. and then smoke him. A slack-eyed Fonz named Marcus gets out of a car and spins over to impress Erica with how many times he can say cool in a sentence, a rebel without a clue. She isn't here to talk...
...positive for marijuana (a urine level of 17.8 nanograms per milliliter, exceeding the 15.0 limit set by snowboarding's Olympic governing body, the International Ski Federation), and after a 3-to-2 vote, the I.O.C.'s executive board recommended he be stripped of his prize. Rebagliati admitted to having smoked in the past, but he asserted that he had not sparked up since April 1997, claiming to have ingested the offending substance as secondhand smoke at a farewell party thrown by several friends in his home ski resort of Whistler, B.C., on Jan. 31. Though journalists saw this...
...Ronald Alkana, professor of molecular pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Southern California's School of Pharmacy, said that marijuana's primary active ingredient, THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), can be stored in the body's fat cells for relatively long periods and that "it's reasonable to assume that secondhand smoke could be absorbed." After the final ruling, Rebagliati remained cool, redisplaying the medal he had kept in his pocket during the three-day fracas. He said he would join in some antidrug campaigns but refused to condemn drugs outright. "I am definitely going to change my life-style...
...SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EARS Parents, snuff it out already! Children under age three who breathe secondhand smoke at home are twice as likely to get persistent middle-ear infections as kids who aren't exposed...