Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times greater in women, the seven-year-long study found. Under the direction of Dr. Brian MacMahon, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology at the SPH, researchers questioned patients in 11 Boston-area hospitals--369 with cancer of the pancreas and 644 control patients--on their use of tobacco, alcohol, tea and coffee...
...future, while leaving intact their own pet porkbarrel programs. They seek to cut the budget for clean alternative energy sources by 75%, while giving the nuclear power program full funding. They cut deeply into support for education and scientific research, while barely touching such boondoggles as water projects and tobacco subsidies. These skewed priorities may serve the Republicans' special interests, but they will certainly harm America's longrun national interest...
Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss similarly badgered Stockman for not proposing an end to the tobacco subsidies (even some White House aides admit these were protected partly not to rile conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina), interest deductions for vacation homes, and the oil depletion allowance. Reuss even asked about a $37 million program for roads in national parks and wilderness areas. Replied Stockman in a revealing aside about the scale of Government spending: "That may be an item we missed. The computers at OMB are programmed to round off at $50 million...
...added that the fungus has not been found in tobacco cigarettes...
...could afford to go to good schools (Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard), and the only reason I could do that was because I was able to get loans," Tsongas explains. "Providly student loans...lets your best people rise through the system...you can call that a pet project. What about tobacco subsidies? What's more important? Clearly you have to make those judgements...