Category: Health

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Monsanto Chemical Company’s W.G. Krummrich plant in Sauget, Il., across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Photo: Courtesy of Monsato

Your Right To Know What You Breathe And Drink–A New Law Emerges

Editors Note: APF Reporter Vol.11 #3 exsisted only as a photo copy, becuase of this the pictures in this story are of poor quality. Monsanto Company’s three St. Louis area plants use perchloroethylene to make a bacteria-fighting chemical in deodorant soap, produce paradichlorobenzene to make

The Great American Challenge poster

Buying Innocence by Association – Tobacco’s Strange Bedfellows

The tobacco industry is forging new, behind-the- scenes relationships in its effort to polish its image and to fight smoking bans and excise taxes. In a public relations fantasy come to life, the $35 billion-a-year industry has aligned itself with organized labor and black, Hispanic

Former President Jimmy Carter (Photo by Karl Schumacher–The White House)

Living Can Be Hazardous To Your Health

ATLANTA–Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter may be getting older but a computer recently told them they are far younger than their actual ages. They are among the first to undergo a new computerized health risk appraisal developed here at the Carter Center of Emory University in

A November 20th 1960 ad from the New York Mirror magazine. Courtesy of the collection of Joe B. Tye and STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco).

“The Greatest Health Protection in Cigarette History!”

WEST GROTON, MA.-By the time he was 40, Milton Wheeler was too short of breath to fix the kids’ mini-bikes or play a round of golf. He had to give up his career as a policeman–and his dream of becoming chief–there being no place for

Researchers placed a lit cigarette on an upholstered chair to show how dangerously long a cigarette can smolder before igniting a smoky fire.

Making A Fire-Safe Cigarette

Not long after saying good night to the last dinner guest, the Mitchell family was dead. Billie Mitchell, 33, was a non-smoker-, his wife Kathi, 27, smoked occasionally. A guest may have dropped the cigarette, or maybe it spilled from an ashtray into a crack