Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most inflammatory question of our time," proclaimed the full-page advertisements of a tobacco company last year. The question: "Hey, would you put out that cigarette?" To cigarette producers and to the nation's 60 million smokers, those sound like fighting words. But to nonsmokers, the request appears to be increasingly reasonable and justifiable...
...made a career out of trying to shrink into the scenery. As a stand-up comic in the early 1960s, Newhart created a series of dryly satirical routines in which he portrayed a well- meaning, slightly befuddled organization man trying to cope with extraordinary events, from the discovery of tobacco to King Kong climbing up the Empire State Building. In his previous TV series, The Bob Newhart Show, he appeared as Bob Hartley, a psychologist who played second fiddle to the neurotics who trooped in and out of his office...
...proposed ordinance, similar to one passed in San Francisco and other cities, is designed to protect non-smoking employees from any work situation forcing them to breathe tobacco smoke within city limits...
Shopland declined to discuss the contents ofthe soon-to-be-released report, but he said thatthe study will concentrate on the scientificaspects of environmental tobacco smoke...
...time when tobacco lobbies can credibly defend unrestricted smoking as a vital personal liberty is long past. Passage of a smoking ban in Cambridge will finally recognize the more fundamental rights of people not to be involuntarily poisoned. We hope it will set a standard for the nation to follow...