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...legal actions herald a major new offensive by America's antismoking forces. Their campaign, having stormed through airplane cabins, office buildings and restaurants, is moving into the home. "Parents exposing their children to secondhand smoke is the most common form of child abuse in America," argues attorney John F. Banzhaf III, the executive director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Banzhaf, a longtime foe of the tobacco industry and mastermind of the child-protection strategy, got a major boost in January, when an Environmental Protection Agency report concluded that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 American adults...
...government antismoking patrols. Says Thomas Harvey Holt, a Visiting Fellow at the Capital Research Center in Washington: "Smokers soon may find social-services agents on their doorsteps, asking 'May I come in and make sure there are no cigarettes, cigars or pipes on your premises?' " Counters ASH's Banzhaf: "Nobody is telling parents they can't smoke. We're simply saying they can't smoke around their children. This is no different from protecting children from lead-based paint or other risks in the home...
Anti-tobacco forces celebrated the verdict as a breakthrough. John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University who heads the Action on Smoking and Health group, called the decision the "most important legal development involving tobacco since the cigarette companies were forced off television ((in 1971))." Product-liability experts predicted that the case would provide a boost in confidence and a how-to manual for the plaintiffs in 110 similar cases now being pursued in the U.S. Before long, the verdict could prompt fresh lawsuits as well, since cigarette foes like Banzhaf estimate that smoking contributes to the premature...
...cigarette actually satisfies a craving for nicotine without producing the smoke that annoys others, smokers might have less incentive to quit. Nonsmokers, meanwhile, might be just as vulnerable as before, or more so. "Now when someone lights up, you can see and avoid the smoke," says John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health. "With the new cigarette, which still may give off dangerous chemicals, it will be harder to avoid...
Greene's ruling was the result of a lawsuit filed last summer by John Banzhaf III, a George Washington University law professor, and Peter Meyers, a criminal-law specialist. They argued that under the Ethics in Government Act, passed in 1978 as a post-Watergate reform, Smith was obligated to ask for a special prosecutor (now technically called an "independent counsel") in the Carter case. "What we had here was an investigation that was rife with partisanship," says Banzhaf...