Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Society. Basis of their study: 8,692 patients admitted to eight Seventh-day Adventist hospitals in southern California in 1952-56. Of these, 564 were Seventh-day Adventists who did not smoke or drink because their religion forbids, while 8,128 were of persuasions that take no stand on tobacco or alcohol, so many, but not all, both smoked and drank. All patients had either cancer or coronary artery disease, or had suffered heart attacks...
...Reynolds Tobacco...
Died. William Kerr Scott, 61, Democratic Senator from North Carolina, onetime (1949-53) governor of North Carolina and (1937-48) state commissioner of agriculture; of a heart attack; in Burlington, N.C. The tobacco-chewing "Squire of Haw River" (where he ran a 200-head dairy farm) drew his political strength from the rural vote, solidified his farm popularity during his term as governor by pushing through a bond issue that financed the paving of 14,810 miles of rural roads, chivied power companies until they strung 21,000 miles of new electric lines. Liberal Scott thought North Carolina was "shortchanging...
...FILTER will be offered by American Tobacco Co. on one of its cigarettes (Hit Parade, Tareyton, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike). Industry rumor: filter will be double, with one part charcoal...
...Turkey last week U.S. buyers of the new tobacco crop found their hard-cash deals being squeezed by satellite countries. Americans buy at the official rate of 2.8 liras to the dollar. The Communists pay in barter deals at a rate of 14 to 15 liras to the dollar-covering the cost by boosting prices of their goods. Much of the Red-bought tobacco does not go to satellite citizens, but is eventually sold in the U.S. for dollars. Since U.S. companies have recently found a better, cheaper tobacco in Greece, they are not worried by Red competition in Turkey...