Word: bans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Protesting a ban on smoking in all non-residential buildings, about 50 students at Brandeis University in Waltham held a smoke-in the school's cafeteria yesterday, the Boston Globe reports this morning...
Under pressure from Christian groups and conservative lawmakers, the feds have dropped guidelines intended to prevent religious harassment. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission deep-sixed the rules after being swamped with about 100,000 letters of protest. Opponents feared that the rules would go overboard and ban all religious expression from the workplace -- like the wearing of a cross or a yarmulke...
...fire the next volley in the tobacco wars, and they are looking to science for guidance. Washington's prestigious Institute of Medicine will come to the rescue this week with a finding that nicotine is indeed addictive and should be regulated as a drug. But instead of a complete ban on cigarettes, the iom recommends raising the cigarette tax from 24 cents to a hefty $2 a pack...
...unanswered questions. Environmentalists argue that evidence for harm is too strong to permit delay. The issue is especially tough because the chemicals under scrutiny are found almost everywhere.Since many of them contain chlorine or are by-products of processes involving chlorine compounds, the environmental group Greenpeace has demanded a ban on all industrial uses of chlorine. The proposal seems appealingly simple, but it would be economically wrenching for companies and consumers alike...
...that smoking causes lung cancer," says Sierra Club pollution expert George Colling, prematurely and hyperbolically, in the latest issue of the organization's monthly newspaper. And Peter deFur of the Environmental Defense Fund predicts that the document will lead to much tighter regulations, and in some cases even a ban, on the release of dioxin and related chemicals...