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...than her stats. If Lobo, whose parents are both educators, receives the Rhodes scholarship for which she has applied, she will undoubtedly be the first woman Rhodes scholar who: 1) made basketball All-America; 2) played the saxophone; and 3) spent five summers during her teens working in the tobacco fields of Southwick, Massachusetts. The tobacco work was tough, but Lobo did it to test her own dedication. Her inner strength has been put to a different challenge over the past two years during her mother RuthAnn's fight with breast cancer. The cancer is now in remission, and when...
Upping the ante in the tobacco debate, FDA Commissioner David Kessler said that nicotine addiction begins when most smokers are teenagers and that smoking should properly be addressed as a "pediatric disease." The FDA, he said, is still studying whether to regulate or restrict the sale of tobacco-moves that would probably displease the current Congress...
Smokers are twice as likely as non-smokers to have damage to a critical gene that helps protect the body from cancer, according to a study in today's New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are speculating that the carcinogens in tobacco smoke attach themselves to the p53 gene's genetic material and disable the cell, causing mutations. TIME medicine writer Christine Gorman said, "This is the smoking gun. All of the evidence is overwhelming. . . Unless you are a tobacco executive there is no doubt that smoking causes cancer...
...save up to purchase any of the fine gifts offered in R.J. Reynolds' Select Trading Company Catalogue. It all began with Camel Cash, but maybe you find yourself maturing, turning away from cartoon genitalia. You are older, in need of more domestic domestic items like coffee mugs, commemorative tobacco tins, and large quantities of red meat, delivered right to your door. That's right, three pounds of fully cooked baby back ribs, if the smoke don't kill you, the fat intake will. But wait, there's more ! You also get free 650 Select proofs of purchase to buy more...
When viewed through a Feminist/ Decontructionist lens, the advertisement betrays a multiplicity of hidden messages. The image of the cigarette/ phallus remains central, perhaps suggesting Merle's own doubts about his manhood. As Merle stands, patriachal, yet despairing amidst the rolling fields of tobacco, the camera shifts once again to an image of sexual negation. The Barn is a Keatsian cave of forlorn despair and homosexual repression, suggesting void on both a sexual and an ontological level. The only hint of resolution comes in the form of conversion. All seems resolved as the tobacco is mysteriously rendered into phallic triumph...