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...daily progression of my degradation. I lost interest in politics, then in scientific problems, finally in my wife and children. My speech became blurred; my memory worsened. In the beginning, I reacted strongly to the sufferings of other patients. Eventually I became indifferent. My only thoughts were of toilets, tobacco and the bribes to the male nurses to let me go to the toilet one more time. Then I began to experience a new thought: 'I must remember everything I see here, I told myself, so that lean tell about it afterwards...
...Chevy commercial was just dumb--there were others that were plain offensive. A Borkum-Riff pipe tobacco commercial showed a blonde guy stomping the snow from his boots, entering a house, taking off his coat, and being welcomed by a beautiful blonde woman who proceeds to stuff and light his pipe for him. The voiceover says something like: "In Sweden, a man has to take all the comfort he can get to make it through the winter. Borkum-Riff, a lusty smoke...
Dale Gilbert was delighted to get his job as an operations supervisor at Life Science Products Co., a small Hopewell, Va., firm that manufactured a pesticide called Kepone. His annual salary was $14,500-$3,000 more than he had earned in his previous job in a tobacco plant. Gilbert has paid dearly for his raise. Two months after joining Life Science, the handsome Virginian noticed that his hands had begun to tremble. By last May he had developed pains in his chest and stomach. He was hospitalized in June, and has not worked since. He suffers from liver...
...baths are continued at slightly lowered temperatures. Mills also encourages exercises, not only to make frostbitten limbs flexible again but to give patients a psychological boost; they are often frightened by the appearance of the injury (blisters, swelling, discoloration). Mills allows alcohol because "it does offer solace" but forbids tobacco, which tends to constrict blood vessels and impede blood circulation...
...over the frustration of being outsiders looking in," writes Leona. Yet it is precisely the Schecters' visitors-to-a-strange-planet attitude that makes their book succeed. On virtually every page are anecdotes and vignettes that constitute a witty, indelible portrait of the Soviet Union. Sweat, garlic and tobacco are the "characteristic smell of Moscow." Shoppers use no checks or credit cards; only the privileged in this "classless society" use scrip to buy luxury groceries at bargain prices. Three bathers in Armenia show off portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin tattooed on their chests...