He and Mr. Maiullo also smash a beaker with sound waves, crush another one with atmospheric pressure, create a small tornado from smoke, prove the volatility of hydrogen by puncturing a balloon filled with it (don't try it at home) and use liquid nitrogen to make a tiny cannon (don't try that at home, either).
"But the federal government doesn't want to undertake that burden of proof because they don't want to identify hundreds and thousands of people, prove that they smoked, prove how long they smoked," he said.
Although many components in tobacco smoke have been proved to be genotoxic, the combination effect of nicotine and tobacco-related genotoxic reagents or therapeutic radiation on DNA damage response remains unexplored.
Seared sea scallops floated on a multi-colored, many-splendored tide of corn succotash and smoked bacon that proved to be a potent magnet for my spoon.
In fact, this particular brand of smokes has always proved to be pretty reliable.
Pioglitazone treatment of virally-infected smoke-exposed mice proved more efficacious than the steroid intervention.
However, everything from tickling corpses with feathers to blowing smoke up their orifices proved unsuccessful.
In 1986, a surgeon general's report expanded the alarm about smoking, stating that secondhand smoke had also been conclusively proved to cause cancer.
Re "Where There's Smoke There's a New Rule Against It" (Public Lives, May 7) and "The Puritans Run Amok Over Smoking" (NYC column, May 4): The public discussion about whether smoking should be allowed indoors should emphasize a key fact: secondhand smoke is a proven killer.
Many studies have proved that secondhand smoke, which is cited as the reason for most smoking bans, is a health hazard.
