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On 21 September 1970 two physicians, Werner A. Bleyer and Robert T. Brekenridge, advised mothers to avoid taking aspirin in the latter stages of pregnancy to avoid developing bleeding problems in their babies.

Health, Education, and Welfare secretary Joseph A. Califano attacked the tobacco industry on 11 January 1978 with his statement that cigarette smoking is "slow-motion suicide." But President Jimmy Carter undercut Califano's anti-smoking campaign during his visit to North Carolina by pledging government support of efforts to make cigarettes "even safer than they are."

Dr. Morris E. Chafetz, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, reported on 18 February 1972 that alcoholism was the nation's greatest drug problem, with as many as nine million Americans affected.

On 23 July 1970 U.S. breakfast cereals came under fire from hunger consultant Robert...

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