Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cislaw of Costa Mesa, Calif., seemed to have it all: suntanned good looks, natural athletic and artistic talent, and popularity. One night last March, while recovering from the flu, he took a few drags on a kretek, or clove cigarette, an Indonesian concoction of tobacco and cloves that has become popular with teen-agers across the nation. Soon he was gasping for breath, and by the next day he was in an intensive-care unit suffering from what appeared to be an unusually severe type of pneumonia. "He had cysts the size of golf balls in his lungs," says Thoracic...
Though billed as an herbal, low-tobacco substitute for regular cigarettes, kreteks actually contain 60% tobacco and at least as much tar and nicotine as regular cigarettes. They also contain eugenol, a natural anesthetic found in cloves. Although eugenol has long been used by dentists to relieve pain, "no one knows what happens when it is burned," says Dr. Tee Guidotti, professor of occupational medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton...
...play well." Strange stories of great players with phenomenal names like Addie Joss. Willie Keeler, Bugs Raymond, Chick Golloway--names that sound like baseball players' names--are told with great enthusiasm, and recall a bygone, homegrown age when sore arms were treated with a mixture of vaseline and tobacco sauce...
...predicated on black or white, Mormon or non-Mormon," insists La Veil Edwards, 54, the Mormon coach, "but on lifestyle, people who can appreciate our environment." Every student (98% of the student body is Mormon, 67% of the football team) takes an oath to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea and premarital sex. Not surprisingly, B.Y.U. is probably the most married college football team in history, counting some 30 happy unions. The Cougars' most talented pass receiver, Glen Kozlowski, has two children, and he's a junior...
...Last week Helms quietly urged his backers to vote against Lugar in the majority leader race so that the Indianan could take over the Foreign Relations post while Helms stayed on as chairman of the Agriculture Committee, where he can watch over price supports for North Carolina tobacco farmers...