Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next time you see a high school student smoking a cigar, look again, because it may be more than just fine tobacco he's enjoying, according to the November newsletter of the Substance Abuse Task Force of Cambridge...
...blunting, the smoker splits open a cigar, usually a "Phillie Blunt" brand cigar, and replaces some of the tobacco with marijuana. According to the Governor's Alliance Against Drugs, the trend is getting more and more youths hooked on both nicotine and marijuana...
...cabins, office buildings and restaurants, is moving into the home. "Parents exposing their children to secondhand smoke is the most common form of child abuse in America," argues attorney John F. Banzhaf III, the executive director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Banzhaf, a longtime foe of the tobacco industry and mastermind of the child-protection strategy, got a major boost in January, when an Environmental Protection Agency report concluded that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 American adults to die of lung cancer each year. The study also blamed proximity to smoking for hundreds of thousands of cases...
...tobacco industry, which sued the EPA over the report, disputes the court judgments against smoking parents, arguing that the case against secondhand smoke hasn't been proved. In fact, some prominent scientists, including epidemiology expert Alvan Feinstein of the Yale medical school, believe the EPA may have overstated the evidence in its study. Nonetheless, most health researchers agree it is prudent to keep children away from smoke as much as possible...
Whatever the scientific conclusions, Bill Wordham, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute trade group, contends that the court cases are an invasion of privacy: "We have to ask ourselves where this would stop. Is a parent who habitually takes a child to MacDonald's or otherwise feeds that child unhealthy food any less deserving of custody? What about a parent who allows his child to watch long hours of television?" Some nonindustry observers agree, conjuring up visions of government antismoking patrols. Says Thomas Harvey Holt, a Visiting Fellow at the Capital Research Center in Washington: "Smokers soon may find social...