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Administration sources say President Clinton will determine the scope of the sanctions after reviewing recommendations from an interagency committee. The most likely action is a ban on imports of Taiwan's wildlife products, including snakeskin shoes and lizard handbags. The value of such imports runs about $25 million a year -- a tiny part of America's $25 billion annual trade with Taiwan. But if the sanctions do not spur the country to curb its illicit dealing in endangered species, the trade restrictions could be broadened. And environmentalists will consider any penalties a major victory. Last summer the Administration declared that...
States and localities are cracking down on smoking even more aggressively. In May, Maryland will institute the tightest statewide restrictions in the nation, banning smoking in virtually all workplaces, except in sealed, separately ventilated rooms. Rules go into effect in the state of Washington in September that will forbid smoking in all enclosed private and public offices. The city of Davis, California, has outlawed smoking in all offices, restaurants, outdoor cafes -- and even at the town's annual Fourth of July fireworks display. (The fireworks can smoke, but people can't.) The New Jersey Supreme Court, in a case that...
...proposed raising the cigarette tax a whopping $1.25 a pack, largely to help finance health-care reform. Congress last month passed, and President Clinton signed, a bill that outlaws smoking in all public and some private schools. And last Friday U.S. Department of Defense restrictions went into effect that ban smoking in all military work spaces, ranging from military bases to tanks on the battlefield...
...health effects of smoking are drawing new attention from federal regulators. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed a ban on almost all indoor smoking in the workplace. Even more significant, the activist Food and Drug Administration is taking a look at whether to classify nicotine as a drug -- a move that could effectively remove cigarettes from the over-the-counter market. FDA commissioner David Kessler told Congress he believes that nicotine is a "highly addictive agent" and that cigarette producers control the level of nicotine "that creates and sustains this addiction...
Even without federal prodding, an increasing number of private companies are moving to satisfy the antismoking mood. McDonald's has banned smoking in 1,400 of its company-owned fast-food restaurants in the U.S. Amtrak announced this month that 82% of its trains (up from 62%) will henceforth be smoke free. An estimated one-third of the nation's 1,800 enclosed shopping malls are expected to forbid smoking by the end of this year. Cleveland's stadium is one of 20 * major-league baseball parks to go smokeless; the American Medical Association has urged the majors to ban...