Word: tobacco
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...likely as nonsmokers to die of cancer. The risk faced by female smokers is 30% greater than nonsmokers and still rising. An estimated 430,000 people will die of cancer in the U.S. this year, and the report charges smoking will lead to 129,000 of those deaths. Tobacco, Koop said at a press conference, "is responsible for some 340,000 deaths in this country annually," not only from cancer but from heart trouble, chronic lung and respiratory diseases, and other ailments. Previous reports have blamed smoking by pregnant women for miscarriages, premature births and birth defects. Discussing the effects...
...prostate and breast malignancies, lung cancer, which accounts for a fourth of all cancer deaths, often fails to respond to treatment. According to the report, only 10% of its victims survive five years after diagnosis. The report cautions against the use of pipes, cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco, and warns of dangers to nonsmokers exposed to cigarette smoke. "Side- stream" smoke emitted into the air from a smoldering cigarette sometimes includes carcinogens in higher concentrations than those inhaled directly by a smoker. The Surgeon General cites two studies that showed increased risk of lung cancer in nonsmoking women...
...potential problem for states under Reagan's new proposal is that inflation will force up the costs of programs. But it will not necessarily increase the revenue from the recommended funding, since excise taxes on gasoline, liquor and tobacco are fixed amounts per unit, and not percentages of sales prices...
Although the law has some possible loopholes which might allow retailers to continue to market smoking supplies--calling pipes obviously designed for manrijuana smoking tobacco pipes." for example most smoking supplies in the area are sold in shops that deal only in such items and operators of at least two shops in the Boston area say they are not very optimistic the future of their business...
...loopholes the Boston sales clerk may have meant is visible in the Liberty Tree store an inconspicuous little shop on Mass Ave in Central Square, with no sign announcing the store's name On one shelf, a rack of pipes is designated "tobacco pipes." The owner of Liberty Tree says he hasn't yet through about whether he will close his two stores, but adds with more than a touch of sarcasm that his decision will depend on "whether I want to go to jail...