Word: tobacco
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John F. Banzhaf III, 29, is the lawyer who staggered the tobacco and television industries with his successful demand that TV stations give free time for antismoking messages. To his amazement, the Federal Communications Commission responded to his "citizen's complaint," an action later upheld in the courts. The victory prompted Banzhaf to quit his New York law firm and devote his time to ASH, which he had earlier organized as a nonprofit foundation. He moved to Washington, and LASH (Legislative Action on Smoking and Health), an antismoking lobby, was started soon after...
...characteristic common to many habitual cigarette smokers is that they would like to stop but can't. A recent experiment conducted at London's Mauds-ley Hospital by Psychiatrist M.A. Hamilton Russell suggests that the tobacco smoker can be literally shocked out of his habit. To a sample group of 14 heavy smokers, Russell administered electric jolts at some point during the smoking process. The results were as electrifying as the treatment. After an average of eleven sessions, nine of the 14 had given up smoking; three later relapsed into the habit, but six were still off cigarettes...
...Even if we were to get into the game of deciding what's good for someone else, the harm done in these "perversions" is undoubtedly less dangerous or unhealthy than is tobacco or alcohol...
Cigarette tar painted on the backs of mice has long been known to produce cancer, but until now there has been no proof that lung cancer of the human type could be induced in any animal by forcing it to smoke. Thus, said the tobacco industry, there was no evidence that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer. The fact that heavy smokers are 20 times as likely to die of lung cancer as nonsmokers, said its spokesmen, was merely a "statistical association" that did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship...
...Nader and John Banzhaf III, is considering a ruling that would require the lines to separate smokers and nonsmokers. Not only does cigarette smoke befoul cabin air, which is pressurized at the equivalent of 2,500 ft.-3,500 ft. and is thinner than air at ground level, but tobacco tars have been known to gum up sensitive gyros on aircraft instrument panels...