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...mental disorder. This left in limbo those homosexuals who are dissatisfied with their condition. So the association created "ego-dystonic homosexuality," the world's first mental disorder that is only a disorder if the afflicted person thinks it is. DSM-III, published in 1980, officially listed tobacco dependence and transsexualism as disorders. "Tobacco dependence" may have been discovered to be a special disorder, worthy of its own category, so that smokers could collect from insurance companies for therapy. When "transsexualism," or discomfort about one's anatomic gender and the desire to change, was made an official disorder, Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz...
...your story on the cigarette makers' attempt to diversify, you mention the spate of product-liability cases [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Nov. 18]. After having to practice respiratory therapy, I am no friend of the tobacco industry. But the suit against R.J. Reynolds brought by the family of the man who smoked two to three packs a day is going too far. People must take responsibility for their actions. Susan E. Beerman Sandusky, Ohio...
...increasing cigarette sales in Third World countries are encouraging to tobacco manufacturers. If the habit continues to grow in nations like Kenya, where consumption is up 8% annually, the cigarette companies will have to provide these people with artificial lungs within a generation. Robert G. Arthur Kings Park...
...Rong assembled an executive staff of former businessmen and talented young technocrats. "We study the market before we pick a project," says Jin Xuping, 67, one of CITIC'S two executive directors. Jin learned capitalist methods before 1949 while working in a family-owned group of insurance, oil and tobacco companies. Sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, he grew vegetables and endured endless hours of political harangue...
...London and prompted chief executive John Browne to visit Moscow last month, where he met with Putin. The Russian leader reassured Browne, "We were not mistaken when we supported your decision two years ago" and praised the company for being "a good corporate citizen." Meanwhile, the Japanese tobacco company JTI, which makes Winston and Camel brands at a $400 million state-of-the-art factory it built in St. Petersburg, is embroiled in a court battle with authorities over a tax demand from 2000 for more than $80 million that has prompted complaints from the Japanese government...