Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keep children from buying tobacco products, restrict tobacco advertising, and cut down smoking in public places...
Convinced that "tobacco, in the form of cigarettes, is a poison more lethal than the deadliest narcotic," Oregon's Democratic Senator Maurine Neuberger, who gave up her own addiction six years ago, vowed to "introduce legislation to deal with this tragic problem." Her probable bill: a new tax on cigarettes to subsidize cancer research...
...weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control of much of Spain's banking, brewing, mining, farming, utilities, newspapers-and its politics-and later tried to buy respectability from those who denied it to him, setting up the Juan March Foundation with a gift of $16.6 million...
...choking off Castro's dollar supplies. Now that Washington has approved a legal way around the embargo, Tampa cigarmen are wondering out loud whether their industry is being uselessly sacrificed. As explained by the Treasury Department, the embargo is powerless to prevent entry into the U.S. of Cuban tobacco manufactured into cigars in any third nation or its possessions-Spain's Canary Islands, for example...
...official. Looking around a large, pungent room full of hand cigar makers, he added: "Their average age is between 45 and 60; they're not entitled to a pension, and they're too old to find jobs. I think that if they're going to let tobacco through anyway, they should for get the whole embargo...