Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provinces, fires destroyed 2,500 tons of sugar cane and a tobacco-curing house in Pinar del Rio. In mid-island Camagüey province, two trains were derailed by sabotage; Camagüey city itself was darkened for four hours by the bombing of a key power transformer...
...made for the Smoker," declared the Freshman Red book. "The main feature will be Gertrude Nieces, the popular New York singer, backed up by a cast of forty entertainers. To add to the splendor of the party, Memorial Hall has been engaged as the place, two and free food, tobacco, and ginger ale will provide the rations...
...state with the strongest law holding a manufacturer responsible for the purity of its products is Louisiana. To San Francisco Lawyer Melvin ("The King of Torts") Belli, who has made a career out of damage suits, Louisiana seemed the ideal place to establish a legal precedent that tobacco companies can be held liable for death from lung cancer...
Star witness for Belli was famed New Orleans Surgeon Alton Ochsner, one of the most outspoken of all doctors in his conviction that smoking causes cancer. Said Ochsner: "I have yet to see the physician who will not admit that tobacco causes cancer except the doctors employed by the tobacco companies and the doctor who is addicted." Ochsner said he had examined the autopsy material on Lartique and was positive he had died of lung cancer induced by excessive smoking...
...students (whose defiance, however, was largely verbal), the faculty stuck to its ban on smoking in lecture halls and classrooms. President Goheen noted that the new restrictions matched those at Harvard and Yale, but quickly explained that they were put in effect only to save money on refinishing the tobacco-stained floors of classrooms and lecture halls...