Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mention what I consider the two hypocrisies in the smoking controversy: our Government's subsidy to tobacco farmers and the exemption of tobacco products from FDA control. If a drug were causing a fraction of the deaths attributed to cigarettes, it would have been removed from the market long ago, and the companies would be bankrupt from liability suits...
Sparky Anderson is hitting fungoes. "They've forgiven us," marvels the Detroit manager. "Baseball has to be the luckiest business in the world. Whatever we do to louse it up, we can't." Johnny Pesky is chewing tobacco. Everything Sparky says, the wrynecked coach of the Boston Red Sox endorses with a streamer and a splat. "Baseball," Sparky says, "is bigger than the people running...
Safranek sets up most of the experiments the undergraduates perform, while Williams' provides more of a supportive role. All of the research deals with the tobacco horn worm. Williams most recent area of concentration. Safranek first teachers the students the mundane tasks of cleaning tubes, refilling supplies and of taking care of Williams caterpillar factory--which year round produces mass quantities of all the different stages of caterpillar development. After getting to know the students and their dependability. Safranek provides them with lab projects while teaching them the actual techniques needed to pursue their independent research Depending on the students...
...almost twice as likely to break the habit eventually as noncollege smokers. Smoking among men reached a high in 1955 when almost 53% of American men smoked. For women, the peak year was 1966, when 33% were cigarette users. Today 37% of men and 29% of women use tobacco regularly. Teenagers, particularly girls, were of special concern in the 1970s when they began to take up smoking in record numbers, but the young appear to be cutting down a bit now. In another study published last week (see following story) researchers at the University of Michigan announced that only...
Predictably, the industry-funded Tobacco Institute contested the report...