Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more remarkable though is the fact that the anemic revolt that began quietly 30 years ago--with a handful of scientists who were concerned about the potential health consequences of smoke and a handful of nonsmokers who were bothered by the constant haze of smoke in their eyes--last week proved that it has achieved enough muscle to bring the tobacco industry to its knees. If the long-lasting cultural parade of Joe Camel and Marlboro Men and cigarette-waving screen stars is not yet quite over, the celebratory band, at least, has most certainly passed...
...Teenage smoking will not go away--the industry's survival depends on it. However, by making cigarettes less accessible and more costly to youngsters, by deglamorizing the habit through less seductive ads and a ban on brand-name promotions, and by stigmatizing it with a broad antismoking ad campaign paid for by the industry, the settlement materially strengthens the Clinton Administration initiative to discourage teen smoking. It is, in effect, a vigorous exercise in preventive medicine that is both sound public policy and shrewd politics. Remember, though, that kids smoke in part because it's dangerous, not in spite...
...have forgotten the smoker. His bad faith, if he has it, is nothing worse than self-deception. It is his alone. Pollsters will tell you that most smokers want to quit. Maybe so. But the fact remains that many of them continue to smoke, and for many reasons. Those of an earlier generation--those few (ahem) still alive--began because Bogart and Bacall did it, and Bette Davis too: because it was cool and widely accepted. But later generations, at least those come of age after the unavoidable 1964 Surgeon General's report, found a different reason: because...
...smoking sets you apart--literally. At restaurants we are seated back by the kitchen door, where we dine to the music of busboys clattering silverware into milky dishwater. At work we smoke huddled in the rain and snow, risking pneumonia for (we are told) the sake of the public health. The unintended consequence of each new restriction has been to make smoking a badge of honor, a sign of one's refusal to give in. And now, with last week's agreement--with this consensus arrived at by America's cynics and pols and buttinskies--the attractions of smoking...
...grimy industrial town northeast of Beijing that is sunk in despair. Once the shining star of Maoist industrial production, the city has lost its way in the changeover to private enterprise. Last night's revelers have been replaced by a handful of dejected men with nothing to do but smoke. More bicycles than cars circle the square as those still toiling in the antiquated state-owned factories that make products no one buys head for their redundant jobs. The reason so many people pack the square at night, says an only nominally employed factory worker we'll call Liang...