Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risk: a slight increase in the incidence of cancer of the lip. > Cigar smoking, up to five cigars a day, is apparently safe; for men who smoke more than five cigars a day, the death rate is only slightly higher than for nonsmokers. > "Possible benefits" from the use of tobacco took only 1½ pages of the report. The committee decided that they lie in "a psychogenic search for contentment," and cannot be measured. Tar & Nicotine. The committee's report was presented in the auditorium of the Old State Department building last Saturday morning, a time carefully chosen...
Leavitt and Pierce and the Coop reported a slight drop in cigarette sales and a considerable rise in pipe and tobacco purchases. But the saleswoman in the Coop was skeptical. "Cigarettes will keep going down for a white--then sales will shoot right back up," she said. "That's what happened on the New York Stock Exchange...
Another Cliffie, who smoked her last cigarette Sunday morning, said she stopped because of "reports tobacco tante, stained teeth,--and mainly, I didn't have any more money...
...College were worried about the report, too, although they seemed to favor moderation over complete abstinence. Many were cutting down or switching to pipes. "It's as investment in my health," commented an instructor who was buying $15 worth of pipes and tobacco at the Coop...
...Humphrey Bogart Festival opened at the Brattle. The report says that by smoking we may die, but Bogart shows in film after film that without smoking, it is impossible to live. While the ego may heed the Surgeon-General, the libido refuses to spurn the Bogart Mystique. The tobacco companies tell us we are misinformed; there is no choice but to round up the usual suspects...