Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most deluxe television quiz show. Without undue straining, the voice of a master of ceremonies comes filtering through the imagination, asking the traditional question-"Johnny, tell us what's in the jackpot for this wonderful couple"-and getting, from an agitated announcer who sounds like a tobacco auctioneer just graduated from broadcast school, a far from conventional reply...
...typecast for the role of European professor: hair askew, glasses perched precariously on nose, rumpled suit flecked with bits of tobacco from an omnipresent pipe. At the University of Basel, where he taught for 27 years, students adored him. But amiable Karl Barth was anything but indulgent when he talked of man's relationship with...
...Tobacco Road. The people in a small Georgia town throw their tobacco products into the main street after Jeeter Lester and his family persuade them to give up smoking, chewing and dipping...
...Japanese findings were already disputed by the Tobacco Institute, the industry's lobbying organization. The institute says that three U.S. statisticians who were asked to review the report discovered an error in how the data were analyzed and judged the study's conclusions "invalid." But one of the statisticians, Nathan Mantel of George Washington University, says that while his review raised questions about the study, it did not draw any firm conclusions. Says he: "The institute has put words in my mouth...
...ongoing debate. Other studies have indicated that passive smoking can exacerbate symptoms in people with allergies and heart disease and impair lung functioning in healthy adults. Some research has found that children whose parents smoke suffer more respiratory-tract illness. Only one thing is certain: where there's tobacco smoke, there's bound to be fire...