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...protects against cancer -- be backed up by "significant scientific agreement." Under food-labeling laws passed by Congress three years ago and scheduled to go into effect Dec. 5, products that fail to meet this test will have to be relabeled. The products themselves, however, will not be banned. "The great vitamin ban of 1993 is a hoax," says Bruce Silverglade of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, one of several independent groups that support the FDA. "We need the government to sort fact from fiction...
City Councillor Alice K. Wolf, who is not seeking reelction this year, has fought for right to post in the past. When the Cambridge City Council voted in 1974 to ban campaign signs, she sued...
Mark Levine, president of the Massachusetts Vending Association and treasurer of Melo-tone Vending, Inc., said the ban "would greatly affect" the machine distributors' business, and would hurt establishments that currently have cigarette machines...
Levine and other distributors of cigarette vending machines propose that instead of banning the machines altogether, the City Council consider mandating the use of locking devices which would prevent minors from obtaining cigarettes from public machines. Levine said he will fight the ban and intendsto demonstrate the locking devices at theordinance committee hearing...
...said the ban on cigarette machines is justthe first step in strengthening other antismokingordinances in Cambridge...