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  • Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
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Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
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TOBACCO

(See also Smoking)

(Note centered heading below: Quotations)

addiction: g81 3/8 8-9; g80 4/8 24

stronger than cocaine: g85 9/8 30

advertising: g84 5/8 31; w81 2/1 7; g81 3/8 7, 11; g75 5/22 29; g75 10/22 30-31; g73 10/22 30; g67 2/22 19; g62 5/22 29; g62 7/8 29

misleading: g85 4/8 31

Africa:

increased growing of: g82 4/8 30

as food: g83 8/8 29-30

ban proposed on saccharin but not on: w77 342

Bible view: w81 2/1 8-10; g81 3/8 14; hp 98-99; g78 1/8 27-28; yy 112-114; w73 338-343; w73 543; tp73 162-163; km 7/73 4; km 11/73 7; w72 595-596; w71 670-672; w69 126-127; yl 196; g62 3/8 20; g60 1/22 27-28; g57 10/22 24; w54 201-205; w50 59-61, 155; w42 205-206

growing: w74 456; km 2/74 3-6; w73 409-410; w72 595-596

selling: km 2/74 3-4, 6; w72 596

users do not qualify for baptism: w73 338-340

breaking the habit: w81 2/1 10-12; yb81 181; g81 3/8 13-14; yb80 181; g80 7/22 29; w73 453-455; w71 670-672

experiences: w81 2/1 11, 32; yb81 72-73; g81 3/8 14; yb79 237

Britain:

British Medical Association attack on misleading promotion: g85 4/8 31

chewing tobacco: g83 11/22 27; g81 2/22 29

China:

production: g77 9/22 29

Christendom’s missionaries exchange tobacco for land: yb84 217, 223

Christian view of smoking nontobacco cigarettes as an aid in overcoming addiction to: w84 6/15 31

clergy attitude toward: w84 3/15 26; g82 11/8 29; g77 9/8 29

court decision: g68 7/8 31

dangers: g83 9/8 19-20; g81 2/22 29; g81 3/8 5-6; g80 4/8 24; g78 1/8 27, 30; g78 2/8 29; g78 3/22 30; g78 7/22 30; g77 5/22 30; g76 1/22 29; w75 327; g75 4/8 30; g75 12/22 30; g74 2/8 29; g74 2/22 30; g74 5/22 18-19; g74 6/8 29-30; g74 7/22 30; g74 9/8 18, 20, 23; g74 11/22 30; w73 338-339; g73 5/22 30; g73 8/8 30; g73 8/22 17-20; w72 595; g72 1/22 29; g72 6/8 30; g71 5/8 29; g71 11/8 4; g70 12/22 30; g69 8/22 4; g68 6/8 23; w67 579; g67 2/22 17-18; g67 6/22 23; g67 10/8 30-31; g67 11/8 30; g66 11/22 29; g64 1/8 30; g64 1/22 29-30

deaths in United States: g81 10/22 29

effect of chewing: g83 11/22 27

effect of rising consumption in poor countries: g80 6/22 29

effect of smoke on nonsmokers: g85 9/8 30-31; g81 3/8 12; g78 10/8 30

effect on sleep and memory: g80 5/8 29

effect on user: g82 11/22 20; g80 7/22 10; w72 595

radiation from smoking: g82 10/8 29

discussion: w81 2/1 3-12; g81 3/8 5-14; w73 336-343; w71 670-672

experiences:

change employment: w75 763; yb75 9; w73 409-410

farmer switches to other crops: w84 3/1 15; w73 410

man accepts truth and sells tobacco business: g82 12/22 28

pharmacist discontinues selling: g84 8/22 30

stores without tobacco: w79 9/1 32; w76 627; w76 715; w75 292

tobacco merchants accept truth: g82 8/22 17, 20; g78 10/8 11; w76 204

Witnesses give up tobacco-related employment: yb85 167-169; w73 409-410

government spending to warn of dangers: g75 10/22 30-31

history: g81 3/8 5; g57 2/22 17-19; g57 10/22 21-22; w50 59, 155; g46 7/31 3-6; w42 205

India:

three-year-old boy addicted: g81 6/8 29

nicotine:

stronger and more addictive than cocaine: g85 9/8 30

North Carolina:

attitude of churches toward: g82 11/8 29

production: g81 3/8 5

attitude of United Methodist Church: g77 9/8 29

China: g77 9/22 29

increase: w74 71; g74 5/22 30; g73 11/8 31

religious use: g78 11/8 6; g57 2/22 17-19; w50 60; g46 7/31 4-5; w42 205

sales statistics: g73 3/22 31; g69 11/22 29; w67 579; g62 3/8 16; g61 2/22 30

small cigars: g81 11/22 30

snuff: g83 11/22 27

health dangers: g81 7/8 30

Sweden:

cost to support habit: g78 10/8 11

Third World nations: g81 2/22 27

issue of tobacco cultivation: g83 9/8 29

United States:

decline in smoking: g85 9/22 30-31

Department of Agriculture efforts to develop tobacco for a ‘safe cigarette’: g85 11/8 29

pressure on Japan to increase imports of American tobacco: g82 6/22 29

rating as to consumption: g77 4/8 29

subsidy: g82 11/22 20; g81 2/22 27; g81 3/8 9; g75 10/22 30-31; g74 5/22 30; g70 2/22 29-30

use in spiritism: g78 11/8 6

view that taxes received from sale of tobacco outweigh the sickness and death caused by the products: g82 10/8 29

why not banned: g72 7/8 30

Quotations

“governmental hypocrisy” regarding: w77 342

probably the most deadly drug in our society: g78 1/8 27; w76 217

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