Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...completely ignores the real reason for the ruling--the enforcement mechanism (of OMB and CAO mandatory cuts) puts direct executive power in the legislative branch through the CAO. This decision hardly makes the law useless. A simple revision transferring responsibility solely to the OMB (in the executive branch) would snuff out this objection...
Your girlfriend says to you: "Why can't you be more like Sam Shepard?" She buys you denim jackets, refuses to wash your bluejeans, pickles your tongue with shots of tequila. "Why don't you buy a lasso?" she suggests. "Buck broncos, for Christ's sake. Dip snuff, do chaw, go smokeless, anything...
...back a prohibition of all cigarette advertising. Such commercials have been forbidden on television and radio for the past 15 years, and the A.M.A. will now lobby to get Congress to extend the injunction to newspapers, magazines, billboards and even skywriting. The association would also prohibit ads for snuff and chewing tobacco. This sweeping ban is necessary, the doctors argue, because the health risks are so great. Although the percentage of Americans who smoke has been declining, some experts believe that perhaps 1,000 deaths in the U.S. each day are associated with smoking cigarettes...
Sean Marsee was just twelve years old when he picked up some free samples of Skoal and Copenhagen tobacco at a local rodeo. Dipping snuff was a popular habit at his school, especially among the athletes. And Marsee, a budding track star, quickly grew accustomed to the feel of a juicy wad in his mouth and the slight head buzz that goes with it. By the time he entered high school, he was dipping his way through seven to ten cans a week. Then in 1983, his senior year, Marsee developed a painful sore on his tongue. It refused...
...fondness for "smokeless tobacco" has become alarmingly widespread among American youth. Once associated with lumberjacks, laborers and juice-spitting hayseeds, smokeless tobacco includes both the rough-cut chewing variety (Red Man, Mail < Pouch and other brands, which are held in the cheek and occasionally munched) and finely ground moist snuff (Copenhagen, Skoal and the like, which are usually packed in between the lower lip and gum). In many states, it is illegal to sell tobacco of any sort to minors, but the laws are difficult to enforce. Teenage boys, in particular, are turning to snuff in record numbers, inspired perhaps...