Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the Government report linking smoking with cancer and heart disease was first published in 1964, doctors and public health officials have waged a steady war against cigarettes. Now their efforts seem to be increasing. Last month Arizona became the first state to take legal action against tobacco by banning smoking in public places. Britain's Health Education Council, meanwhile, turned to shock tactics in its campaign against cigarettes. It released a poster showing a child dragging on a cigarette as he perched in his high chair. Its message: when a child breathes air filled with cigarette smoke...
...indication, neither is likely to have much impact on those now addicted to nicotine. Alsop, who is struggling to kick a four-pack-a-day habit, wrote earlier this month that matters requiring calculation, learning and judgment became "inordinately difficult or downright impossible" without the comfort of tobacco. Scores of readers wrote to tell him that they, too, suffered from what Alsop called the "incompetence syndrome," and were unable to do almost everything from working to playing bridge without cigarettes...
Fascinated by their response, Alsop asked Science Writer Edward Brecher, author of Licit and Illicit Drugs (Consumers Union, 1972), if doctors had studied this problem. Brecher, whose book describes tobacco as "one of the most physiologically damaging substances used by man," cited serious psychiatric and metabolic reports on the subject. For many smokers, psychological needs combine with nicotine addiction to produce a powerful dependency. Beyond that, he could empathize with Alsop. Brecher gave up cigarettes for 14 months, but started smoking again when he found that he simply could not work without them...
Problem: How do you coach eighty girls who have never rowed before and never seem to be free at the same time? Solution: Spend your evenings drawing up schedules and post them in the window of the Leavitt and Peirce Tobacco Shop. Spend eight hours a day on the water, coxing("In the beginning, all John saw was arms and legs doing the wrong thing," says Charlotte Crane). Then, listen to eighty girls complaining when the schedule runs late. On occasion, allow them to attack you with water pistols. --From an account of the Radcliffe Varsity Crew's journey...
...have Bruce Pearson in mind when he wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young." Pearson, a third-string catcher for the New York Mammoths, is impossible to cast in the heroic Grecian mode. He is a Georgia backwoodsman who can't get the hang of spitting his tobacco accurately, let alone of making his teammates respect or even like him very much. His only distinction is that he has been prematurely touched by mortality, in the form of Hodgkin's disease...