Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having launched 20 new cigarette brands since he became president of the American Tobacco Co. in 1963, Robert Barney Walker has become known some what extravagantly as "Brand-a-Month Barney." While American has been concentrating chiefly on smokes, the rest of the industry has been on a merger spree, picking up products ranging from Chun King (Reynolds) to Clark Gum (Philip Morris). Now American is beginning to catch up with the trend, which began with the health scares of the late 50s, to ward profitable acquisitions as a hedge against poor cigarette sales prospects. Last May, American took over...
...physical health, or the cause of psychotic or criminal behavior. Some more recent medical and statistical evidence also suggests that pot smokers are euphoric and generally agreeable under the influence, suffer no hangovers, and are no more likely to turn into drug addicts than are users of whisky or tobacco. On the other hand, marihuana can precipitate a psychosis in unstable people, and some medical men believe that such people who take up pot are also likely to graduate to stronger stuff...
...Called on tobacco companies to print the precise amounts of tar and nicotine in their cigarettes on every pack and in every advertisement as well...
...third generation coming along the company's ranks. Last week, after huddling with Yardley's bankers, N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Gardner urged stockholders to ignore BAT's tender offer. "We are going into battle," he vowed. "I don't see any connection between tobacco and perfumery...
...crimes and most others, like racketeering and robbery, is that they are "crimes" only because we have legislated against the commodity they provide. We single out certain goods and services as harmful or sinful; for reasons of history and tradition, and for other reasons, we forbid dope but not tobacco, gambling in casinos but not on the stockmarket, extra-marital sex but not gluttony, erotic but not mystery stories. We do it for reasons different from those behind the laws against robbery and tax evasion...