The drug was designed to create accumulation of heat-retaining blubber across the torso, foster the growth of insulating body hair and create the ability to undertake long periods of hibernation. As absurd as this sounds, its not that much crazier than the CIA program MK-Ultra, which NPR described as an effort to search for a mind-control drug by experimenting on uninformed volunteers at prisons, universities and hospitals
Effective public education campaigns are adequately funded, guided by scientific research and use of multiple media channels to communicate messages that shift knowledge and attitudes to support policy initiatives designed to reduce tobacco use among a target audience
For an organization that hinted at joining the big leagues of pro sports and longed for television exposure that might take it there, NASCARs 48-race schedule was far too unwieldy and tied to shorter, smaller tracks with little or no national impact
And when you overlay those smoking maps with details of rates of heart disease, stroke and cancer, its equally clear that there are still plenty of lives to be saved by trying