Word: tobacco
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Science's advances have been accompanied by a heightened public awareness of the important role of life-style and environment. At least in the Western world, the combined scientific and government campaign to warn the public of the malign effects of tobacco smoking, for example, has caused millions of people to change long-ingrained habits. An intensive campaign to improve the quality of prenatal and obstetric care--and to get the word out to expectant mothers--has greatly cut infant-mortality rates. Improvements in emergency care, hospital methods and community safety standards have also done their part...
...retiree who must face changing circumstances. Unplugged from a regular and generous income, he must cope with a reduced cash flow by giving up his Fifth Avenue apartment to live full time in Bridgehampton. He must also cope with his daughter Charlotte, a public relations executive who dissembles for tobacco companies and is engaged to Jon Riker, Schmidt's former protege at the firm of Wood & King...
AUTO RACING Proposed marketing restrictions could put the brakes on tobacco-fueled motor sports...
True, no group more richly deserves to be so assaulted than the tobacco industry, which has filled cemeteries by linking cigarettes with images of health, sophistication and sexuality. But what of an emotional wallop delivered on behalf of causes you may not agree with at all? Suppose another candidate told a story about his sister, driven to suicide after losing her business to the persecution of the Federal Drug Administration, and thus argued for the agency's abolition? Or take a real instance: when the Bush campaign in 1988 speared Dukakis with the story of a horrible crime committed...
...TOBACCO WARS...