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Morgan notes that the eight miners were smokers or ex-smokers and suggests that tobacco, not coal dust, was the real culprit. In an editorial accompanying the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Editor William Barclay is even blunter: "The taxpayer will be penalized twice; first in subsidizing those who grow tobacco and then in compensating coal miners who smoke tobacco...
...boys to the old Howard that night. That old burlesque house no longer stands in Scollay Square, and I don't much regret it. I went only once and sat directly under the edge of the first balcony. The men up there were not very gentlemanly. Some were chewing tobacco and used the area below for a spittoon. Most of my gang left before the girls onstage finished taking off their clothes...
...anger and frustration that have been rising in Cuba. Economic conditions have worsened after some improvements a few years ago. The selling price of sugar on the world market has fallen from 660 per lb. in the mid-'70s to a current low of 60. The tobacco crop has been nearly wiped out by blue mold. Cuba today survives on a Soviet subsidy of about $8 million...
...many thousands of Cubans fled their native land as soon as they got the opportunity? As they waited in line at Tamiami the refugees talked about their reasons for leaving. Most described a combination of factors: the island's spreading poverty, made worse in the past year by tobacco-and sugar-crop failures; outright political repression; a gray and stultifying atmosphere...
...when rents began to escalate so high residents could not pay. As a result, the city government reluctantly passed rent controls. "There were barefoot kids standing on my desk in the council chamber," former Mayor Thomas W. Danehy recalls. "They were smoking cigarettes with substances other than tobacco," he adds...