Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientist's comment on longevity, tobacco and alcohol...
...older belief that every cigaret a man smokes is a nail in his coffin. Last week Johns Hopkins Biologist Raymond Pearl gave encouragement to every loyal Zion Citizen when he declared: "Smoking is associated with a definite impairment of longevity. This impairment is proportional to the habitual amount of tobacco usage by smoking, being great for heavy smokers and less for moderate smokers...
Professor Pearl chose the New York Academy of Medicine, where he was invited to talk on "The Search for Longevity," to scare the life out of tobacco manufacturers and make tobacco users' flesh creep. He based his statement on what he sternly declared were the "first life [statistical] tables ever constructed to show the relation between tobacco smoking and longevity...
...Gerard connection did not last but James continued the insurance business with John Sargent, a shrewd Harvard-man, as Roosevelt & Sargent Inc. Son James sold a $2,500,000 policy to the American Tobacco Co. on the life of its President George Washington Hill. The Columbia Broadcasting System bought a like amount of the Roosevelt brand of insurance. In his first year with Sargent, James acquired $67,000 worth of independence. Business improved each succeeding year until James-now the richest of the Roosevelts excepting possibly his grandmother-is estimated to be worth half a million dollars...
Like many other psychological religionists, devotees of the Mighty I AM Presence believe in self-improvement. Like Mormons, they abstain from alcohol, narcotics, tobacco. They also abjure onions and garlic, feeling that their odors are repugnant to the Ascended Masters to whom they pray. Furthermore, they do not keep pets in their houses. People who follow these precepts and live an "I AM Presence-like life" are called "Hundred Percenters." Meeting in I AM reading rooms and auditoriums-of which there are five in California, two in Florida, others in Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia-these Hundred Percenters pray together, believe their...