Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole 'nother smoke," claims the commercial for one of the "little cigars." The U.S. Public Health Service and the Federal Trade Commission disagree with that claim, at least as it bears on the health hazards of the small, tobacco-wrapped smokes that usually come in packs of 20. Because they can be easily inhaled in the same manner as cigarettes and have roughly the same amounts of nicotine and tars, they can be just as dangerous, the Government agencies contend. Therefore the FTC recommended last week that little cigars be treated like cigarettes under the law. If Congress agrees...
...times that debt has proved costly. Until recently, the Soviet Union regarded the country as its own private vegetable patch, vineyard and Tobacco Road. Bulgarians have labored under an ultra-orthodox Communist regime to keep Russian consumers supplied with farm produce, cigarettes and heady red wine. Total economic dependency, combined with brutal political and intellectual repression, assured Bulgaria's status as the most benighted nation in the Soviet bloc...
...bathes more and keeps warmer, works shorter hours, earns more and strikes more. He gets longer vacations, travels less, spends less on food, clothing and tobacco, more on housing and cars-and, if he lives in London, he sees nearly twice as much winter sunshine as he did 20 years ago. Such is the Briton of today, according to a 220-page compendium of statistics published this month by the British government under the dry title Social Trends...
...good for you, and more fun too, than smoking," Actress Eva Gabor declared on becoming national women's "I.Q." ("I Quit") chairman of the American Cancer Society. Eva, who has just filed for a divorce from her fourth husband, urged women to make their spouses give up tobacco. Said she: "Nagging won't do it. You should blackmail them. I did that with one husband. We had a terrific argument and I said I would only forgive him if he'd give up his three packs a day. Now I have a new beau...
...teen-age master suggests a stringent life-style for his devotees, devoid of drugs, sex, tobacco and alcohol. In exchange he offers the gift of knowledge designed to open the initiate's "third eye" of inner awareness and thus bring him perpetual peace. Knowledge sessions sometimes last twelve hours or more and are conducted by 2,000 delegated mahatmas throughout the world. "If you can become perfect," the Maharaj Ji told his disciples in Delhi's Ram Lila Grounds last week, "you can see God. That...