Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your discussion of special interests, it is not correct to include environmental and women's issues. Special interests are single items, like tobacco, sugar, guns and oil. On the other hand, environmental concerns and women's rights are fundamental to safeguard constitutional liberties and earthly survival, for the good of all, not only a certain...
...bill, already has 61 sponsors in the Senate. It would loosen interstate trade in firearms and allow their possession by some categories of felons. In addition, Reagan plans to cut back or abolish the agency that now enforces federal gun laws, the Treasury Department's bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Although 62% of those surveyed in the most recent Gallup poll say they favor tighter gun laws, opponents of gun control clearly have the upper hand. As long as that is the case, America will have to live with one of the world's worst murder records...
Epidemiologist Brian MacMahon and his team stumbled upon the association while studying the effects of smoking and alcohol in 369 patients with pancreatic cancer who had been admitted to eleven New England hospitals between 1974 and 1979. The patients were questioned in detail about their use of tobacco and alcohol and incidentally about their drinking of tea and coffee. Their answers were then compared with those obtained from a control group of 644 patients hospitalized for different forms of cancer and for some nonmalignant diseases as well...
...study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, found no link between pancreatic cancer and use of cigars, pipe tobacco, alcohol or tea. However, it did show that the chances of having the disease were slightly increased in the case of cigarette smokers. But researchers were surprised to find a notable rise in pancreatic cancer among coffee drinkers. Compared with its occurrence in patients who did not drink coffee at all, the disease was two times as frequent among people who drank one or two cups a day and three times as frequent among those drinking three or more...
...group of Harvard undergraduates got together to beat the high prices of textbooks and firewood that Cambridge merchants charged at the time. The students started a shop in a local tobacco store, and out of their first five-foot-long bookshelf the Harvard Cooperative Society was born. The enterprise has since expanded to proportions its founders could never have dreamed possible. Over the past century, the Coop has grown into a multi-million-dollar retailing operation with six stores in the Boston area...