Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Catch the last night of "Charlie's Angels in the Flaming Cave of the Tobacco Heiress" at the Dollhouse Theatre. The show is touted as a "musical adventure in stupidity" based on Aaron Spelling's jiggly '70s television series. Call 266-8511 for ticket details...
Doctors used to blame the higher incidence of lung cancer among those who started smoking in their youth on their prolonged exposure to tobacco. But the new study, involving 143 subjects in the Boston area--some of whom lit up as early as age seven--suggests a more insidious cause. Explains epidemiologist John Wiencke of the University of California at San Francisco: "Use of tobacco so early apparently permanently impairs normal processes of cell renewal. Otherwise, their DNA damage would long since have been repaired...
That's not to say kids who have the smoking habit shouldn't try to quit as soon as they can. After all, there are plenty of other tobacco-related diseases--for example, heart disease, stroke and emphysema--that only get worse the longer you smoke...
...would think that elected members of Congress, whose duty is to represent the American people, would get the point. Allegations of foreign tampering in U.S. elections and unbelievable fund-raising techniques by the Clinton administration should have been enough to outrage Republican diehards. The efforts of tobacco lobbyists to evade responsibility for lung cancer deaths by paying off representatives should have Democrats screaming bloody murder. Instead, there is only silence...
...resistance to reform shows the depths of money and influence in our government. Powerful interest groups--the media, labor groups, tobacco, the National Rifle Associations (NRA) and religious conservatives--use big bucks to back candidates for public office. As a result, elected representatives are responsible to them and not the citizens they are supposed to represent. These special interest groups are holding our Constitution hostage and will not give it back...