Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What often troubles cases like the Deutsches' is the key question of "causation in fact"-the same issue that complicates cancer suits against tobacco companies. Clearly, the law cannot accept the fact that every event has causes reaching to the ends of time. The law's causation tests ask, for example, whether the event would have occurred "but for" the defendant's conduct: his conduct is not a cause if the event would have occurred anyway. Though a hotel failed to install proper fire escapes, it is not liable for the death of a guest who succumbs...
...family in a pure, pastoral setting. Unlike so many of his colleagues, though, Bowman was determined to turn his dream into reality. In 1960, he went into debt to buy an abandoned 67-acre farm in Washington County, Va., an area known for antique shops and country hams, hurley tobacco and beef cattle, spoon bread and purple, mist-hung hills. Five years later, at the age of 39, he decided "it was now or never." He quit U.P.I., moved his wife and three children to the farm, and took a job writing editorials for the Bristol (Va.) Herald-Courier...
...sure, are marginal. But the new editor hopes they will grow along with circulation: "It could be 10,000-there are 10,000 families in the county." To supplement his income, he works the farm by himself, has already made $700 on such crops as corn and tobacco, and expects the figure to climb soon to $2,500 a year...
...very least, they are the kookiest cast of characters who ever called themselves a ball club. First Baseman Boog Powell is (at 6 ft. 4½ in. and 246 lbs.) one of the biggest men in baseball, and he spent seven years perfecting the fine art of tobacco chewing-"the trick," says Powell, "is not to swallow." Leftfielder Curt Blefary keeps a pet cocker spaniel that has scrambled eggs and Coke for breakfast. "Ugh," says Blefary, who has been known to start his own day with clam chowder and hamburger...
Critics, including the Tobacco Institute Inc., as well as many doctors, quickly pointed out that beagles are not humans, and more important, that humans smoke differently. They rarely inhale five times in a row, and they normally do not smoke butts down to less than a quarter of an inch, as the dogs did. Nonetheless, the dead beagles provided the first controlled experimental evidence of the relationship of cigarettes to lung damage...