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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many thousands of Cubans fled their native land as soon as they got the opportunity? As they waited in line at Tamiami the refugees talked about their reasons for leaving. Most described a combination of factors: the island's spreading poverty, made worse in the past year by tobacco-and sugar-crop failures; outright political repression; a gray and stultifying atmosphere...
...when rents began to escalate so high residents could not pay. As a result, the city government reluctantly passed rent controls. "There were barefoot kids standing on my desk in the council chamber," former Mayor Thomas W. Danehy recalls. "They were smoking cigarettes with substances other than tobacco," he adds...
...exciting as interferon research appears to be, it is, like most modern medicine, on the wrong track. Chemicals in the environment-food preservatives, air pollution, industrial solvents, chlorinated pesticides, radiation, tobacco smoke, etc. -are the causes of many cases of cancer. Why concentrate on the cure when the cause is the problem...
...worst results. But nonsmokers who had worked for more than 20 years in smoke-filled areas had scores similar to those of light smokers (people who over two decades had smoked but not inhaled or had smoked fewer than eleven cigarettes a day). Concluded the researchers: "Chronic exposure to tobacco smoke in the work environment is deleterious to the nonsmoker...
...those who do devote themselves entirely to Sikhism must direct both their lifestyles and "consciousness" to the faith. In addition to mediating regularly, Sikhs abstain from tobacco, alcohol, meat, and sex out of marriage. Each wears a kesh, a turban around unshorn hair, as a "crown of spirituality;" a kathera, or special cotton underwear, to "remind" him of his chastity; and a kara, or bangle, to signify commitment to truth and freedom from life's "entanglements." Each Sikh also cariesa kauga, or comb, to symbolize cleanliness, and a small sword called a kirpan to defend neighbors and the family...