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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Snuff"”.
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"The dreams that snuff is made of: ""Le conte fantastique"" and its lethal implications"
Two themes that predominate in la litterature fantastique of the nineteenth century appear quite contradictory and almost mutually exclusive. One set of short stories seems to indicate that le fantastique is nothing more than (sanctioned) nineteenth century pornography. Another set of short stories …
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Socioeconomics of tobacco use in the Southern African Customs Union
… urban areas, while the use of chewing tobacco, snuff, and pipes is generally higher in rural areas. Also, this paper finds that tobacco use is generally lower the higher the educational attainment, while the prevalence of tobacco use is found to be higher in the older age groups compared to the …
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Investigating the use of coca and other psychoactive plants in Pre-Columbian mummies from Chile and Peru. An analytical investigation into the feasibility of testing ancient hair for drug compounds.
… bufotenine, the main alkaloid in Anadenanthera snuff. There is a specific material culture associated with snuffing. These findings confirm Anadenanthera was consumed in the Azapa Valley. The 11 individuals from Peru came from the necropolis at Puruchuco-Huaquerones in the Rímac valley near …
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Consuming Mutilation : Affectivity and Corporeal Transgression on Stage and Screen.
… relation to key texts of the 'torture porn' and 'snuff films' subgenres. Ultimately, I show that the affective corporeal model may be used to analyse a number of texts which utilize and manipulate the organic aspects of human embodiment. Precisely because the chosen texts have not been …
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Tobacco-Use Promotional Environment and Intrapersonal Environment: Predictors of Smoking Intention Among Young Southern California Thai-American Adolescents
… (7.93%) having friends who used chewing tobacco, snuff, of dip. 167 (88.4%) were exposed to smoking advertisings at least some of the time from at least one source. Interpersonal factors included self-esteem subscales of self, family, school, and sensation seeking. Slightly more than half of the …
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Crime Legends in Old and New Media
… were chosen. These cases were: the market in snuff films, the theft of vital organs for black-market transplant, and the abduction of children from theme park restrooms. Current versions circulating in Internet newsgroups and via electronic mail lists were collected. Discussions in Internet …
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Recasting the social critic : social commentary in selected novels of Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett
… and Hard Times by Dickens and Going Postal and Snuff by Pratchett. Analysing these novels according to Bakhtin's theory of polyphony and heteroglossia reveal that character voices in the works of both novels become stratified, turning into representatives of oppressive and rebelling voices. An …
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Essays on the economics of tobacco and alcohol control policy in Kenya
… increased from -0.63 to -0.42. Khat and snuff tobacco were found to be complements for cigarettes. Khat and informally produced spirits were found to be substitutes for formally produced beers. Further, the demand for formally produced beers was found to be price elastic. The …