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Even before the report was released, the industry-funded Tobacco Institute denounced it as "more rehash than research" and asserted that the links between smoking and disease have not been proved conclusively. Institute Vice President Bill Dwyer accused Califano, who kicked his three-pack-a-day habit in 1975, of displaying "all the zeal of a reformed sinner." Added Dwyer: "America beware if Joe Califano ever gives up drinking or other pleasure pursuits, even the most intimate...
...fore in his first tentative cubist paintings, but it is evident in the severely geometric white reliefs Nicholson did in the 1930s under the spell of constructivism and Mondrian, and it pervades his later work. The viewer is always aware of material gently asserting itself: how the tobacco-brown hardboard, rubbed and glazed with a pow dery white or blue that clings to its sur face like fog to a headland or lichen to a rock, has the reality of paper as well as the metaphoric function of paint. The work is seldom fully abstract however. The predilection for landscape...
...every day I asked how he felt." The answers were reassuring but unconvincing, until the morning of the game. Then Bleier and the Steelers got incontrovertible evidence that all was well with Terry Bradshaw, Louisiana cattle rancher and quarterback. "I saw him put a big old chaw of tobacco in his mouth, and if he could stomach that, he could stomach anything. That's when I knew everything was going to be all right...
...asthmatically around the streets of the province's capital, Quetta (pop. 250,000). Purdah (seclusion of women) and arranged marriage are accepted practices in this strict Islamic society. The chief source of relaxation is bung, a finely ground concoction of high-powered local marijuana that is chewed like tobacco or drunk as a herbal infusion. Tribal values revolve around honor, which the Baluch will go to any length to satisfy, including even paying for it. In one Baluch tribe, $400 is the traditional fine for murder, while the penalties for causing bodily injuries start at $50. Fiercely clannish...
...tried one of those cases and lost it, in New Orleans about ten years ago. The cigarette companies paid the other side over a million dollars...Then I had a fucking judge, I think that he couldn't wait until five o'clock so he could water his tobacco plant in his window...