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...Something else for snuff fans to chew on: more than half of 91 National League baseball players who use some form of smokeless tobacco have precancerous lesions. The American Dental Association has called for a ban on chewing tobacco at major-league ball parks...
According to an article in the Boston Globe earlier this week, Harvard accepted about $5 million from the aggressive "special projects' fund of the Council on Tobacco Research in the 1970s, but council officials yesterday disputed the accuracy of the article...
...memo by the general counsel of Brown and Williamson said the division was run by tobacco company attorneys interested in funding scholars and scientists whose research could cast doubt on finding s linking smoking and disease...
Buckley's tobacco peddlers come off no better morally than their subpoenaed real-life counterparts, but they do have more charm. In contrast, the book's politicians and anti-smoking crusaders are boorish. Readers will feel superior as they chortle through Buckley's gallery of rotters and Puritans. The hero is Nick Naylor, spokesman for the "Academy of Tobacco Studies," the industry's lobby. He is a former journalist who was fired because he once mistakenly reported the assassination of a U.S. President...
What researchers do say with great certainty is that the condition is inherited. External factors such as birth injuries and maternal alcohol or tobacco consumption may play a role in less than 10% of cases. Suspicions that a diet high in sugar might cause hyperactivity have been discounted. But the influence of genes is unmistakable. Barkley estimates that 40% of adhd kids have a parent who has the trait and 35% have a sibling with the problem; if the sibling is an identical twin, the chances rise to between...