Word: smokes
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...alternative and more dramatic antitobacco tactic is to portray smoking as an assault on nonsmokers via secondhand smoke. Now, secondhand smoke is certainly a nuisance. But the claim that it is a killer is highly dubious. "The statistical evidence," reported the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service in 1994, "does not appear to support a conclusion that there are substantive health effects of passive smoking...
After drinking heavily, Christopher T. Mirchi, a 21-year-old Radford University student, dies in a fraternity house fire. Mirch's blood alcohol content was 0.25, more than three times the legal limit for drivers in Virginia. Officials believe that alcohol impaired Mirch's ability to sense smoke and flee the fire, reported a Feb. 27 article in the Washington Post...
...think there should still be a few dorms allowed for smoking for the students who do smoke. A few houses should also be left for smoking. If it's so important that you want to smoke inside, then you could just transfer houses. --Diana Kim '00, Kirkland House...
...think that students should be able to smoke in their own rooms as long as it doesn't affect other students in the house. I live in Mather and I know that what goes on it one room can't be heard, much less smelled, in another room. --Jerry W. O'Connor '98, Mather House
Over 200 passengers are feared dead in Indonesia's worst plane crash (Reuters), which may have been caused by the forest-fire smoke blanketing Southeast Asia (TIME Daily...