Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sojourn in the woods. Though O.B. has no statistics on long-term responses, most campers return to the office with renewed energy and confidence. Many regale co-workers with euphoric descriptions of their adventure, apparently blanking out the blistered heels, bloody knees and aching legs. The strict prohibitions against tobacco, drugs and alcohol ruffle some. Griped one executive: "It would have been terrific, if only I had brought along my beer...
...deliveries under P.L. 480--otherwise known somewhat euphemistically as the Food for Peace program--went to only two countries, South Vietnam and Cambodia, where much of the money was used for military purposes. He also did not mention that the program was used to export massive amounts of tobacco, at the insistence of congressmen from tobacco-producing states...
...made chemicals in the environment, the greater the dangers to public health seem to be. Indeed most specialists in the new field of environmental disease believe that 85% of all cancers are caused by exposure to substances in the air or water. These include everything from compounds in tobacco and automotive fumes to asbestos, vinyl chloride, the pesticide dieldrin, carbon tetrachloride and chloroform...
...Plunkett's athletic triumphs and praise have been matched with personal hardships. His Mexican-American mother, who lives in San Jose, Calif., is blind as was his part-Irish father who ran a tobacco shop before he died in 1969. Plunkett and his two older sisters helped to support their family when they were on welfare. In high school, he worked in gas stations and grocery stores, and between summers in college, he joined construction crews...
...American westerns. There is that same kind of primeval fight for natural resources--like cattle-ranchers against sheepherders--but there is none of the glorification or romantic ornamentation. The conditions it describes are real and they have remained the same for centuries: in much of Western Turkey, where tobacco is grown, water and women are the sources of tension and feuding...