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Books of The Times: An Old Warrior With No Taste for Nuclear War: IKE’S BLUFF President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World By Evan Thomas
Imagine a more recent president saying, “That’s just too complicated for a dumb bunny like me” and not catching hell for it. Then imagine a man who quit smoking by ordering himself to do so. Eisenhower’s combination of courage, petulance and cunning are
Sep 25, 2012
New York Times
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Sep 25, 2012 13:49
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[Canada] Santa quits smoking
At least he has in a new Canadian version of Twas the Night Before Christmas edited "for the benefit of children of the 21st century" and released this month.
Sep 19, 2012
VANCOUVER 24 HOURS (ca)
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Sep 19, 2012 16:57
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[New York] Charmed Life: Penny Marshall's Memoir, "My Mother Was Nuts"
Though Marshall is sixty-eight, and was treated for cancer of the lung and brain three years ago . . . "I'm fine! It's just that the rags have me dying every three months--'Pray for Penny'--so it's hard to get work." Lighting a Marlboro, she said . . .
Sep 14, 2012
The New Yorker
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Sep 14, 2012 16:23
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Who Knew What and When?
Pisgah Forest in North Carolina's transylvania County may seem like an odd place for human health fortunes to have pivoted, but there's something to be said for it. Here in the fall of 1953 an experiment was conducted that would change how tobacco compani
Sep 7, 2012
National Public Radio (NPR)
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Sep 13, 2012 15:09
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Speed Read: Juiciest Bits From Bob Woodward’s Book ‘Price of Politics’
3. Obama ‘chomped on Nicorette’ during secret meetings with Boehner.
Sep 11, 2012
The Daily Beast
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Sep 11, 2012 01:56
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Bob Woodward's Price of Politics: 4 talking points [2. Obama "chomped on Nicorette" in meetings with Boehner]
Really, "all you need to know about the differences between the president and myself," Boehner told Woodward, "is that I'm sitting there smoking a cigarette, drinking merlot, and I look across the table and here is the president of the United States drink
Sep 6, 2012
The Week
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Sep 11, 2012 01:53
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Books Analyzing Images of Slaves in History
Field workers’ lives were idealized in popular paintings and prints, especially in scenes of tobacco farms. “In the absence of shackles, whips or collars, these black figures often appear to be voluntarily trading with Britons in a product they both appr
Aug 3, 2012
New York Times
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Aug 3, 2012 09:21
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SIEGEL: New Book Tells "Some of the Story" About Department of Justice's Lawsuit Against Big Tobacco
Asking for $130 billion and receiving $0 billion does not contribute to improving the public's health. Spending more time crafting forward-looking remedies, such as more stringent regulation of cigarette advertising and marketing practices, may have resul
Jul 5, 2012
The Rest of the Story-Tobacco Analasys and Commentary (Michael Siegel blog)
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Jul 31, 2012 16:44
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Big Tobacco Indicts Itself
Golden Holocaust Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition . . . Drawing on formerly secret industry records, Proctor explores how cigarettes became the most widely used drug on the planet—and argues for a ban on their manufacture
Jul 27, 2012
Science
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Jul 31, 2012 13:36
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APHA book tells behind-the-scenes story of case against big tobacco
“I did not want the story of this case to get lost, or worse, to be retold with revisionist historical perspectives,” Eubanks told The Nation’s Health. “The book is important because it shines a light on what can happen when those responsible for followi
May 1, 2012
The Nation's Health (American Public Health Assn)
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Jul 2, 2012 11:25