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...think the Surgeon General had just discovered that it's the paper, not what's wrapped inside, that makes cigarettes deadly. In just five months, shares of the nation's biggest tobacco company, Philip Morris (Marlboro), have risen 47% while shares of No. 2, RJR Nabisco (Winston, Camel), have jumped 39%. Sure, the industry just won a slew of important court cases. But that's hardly news. Big Tobacco has been snuffing out liability claims in the courts for decades. What's new is a persistent buzz that some kind of deal is in the works to end tobacco litigation...
Your enemies are as important as your friends. Clinton's enemies: Joe Camel, the NRA, despoilers of the Grand Canyon. Dole's enemies: teachers, the N.A.A.C.P., Katie Couric, minimum-wage workers. And with friends like Newt, Dole couldn't really afford enemies. All those double-date press conferences during the budget negotiations looked like a buddy movie with Newt the star and Dole the sidekick. If Newt were really Dole's friend, he wouldn't be running around the country swinging a plastic bucket to symbolize all the money the revolution saved on congressional ice deliveries while his standard-bearer...
...modern threats, from TV violence to tainted burgers to weary mothers holding down three jobs. Between the White House's proposals on teen smoking and Al Gore's oath to protect children from lighting up, the Clinton-Gore team seemed to be running against the Dole-Gingrich-Joe Camel ticket...
...CAMEL A ban on brand-name paraphernalia aimed at teenagers threatens to make him an outlaw...
...Camel and the Marlboro Man will be out of our children's reach forever," said Clinton--hopefully. The changes, first previewed last summer, are likely to be tied up in the courts for years. If they take effect, cigarette sales would require a photo I.D. offering proof of age. In magazines read by a significant number of teens, tobacco ads would be limited to a black-and-white, all-text format--no photographs, no cartoon camels with phallic snouts. The same rules would apply to billboards, which would be banned entirely within 1,000 ft. of schools or playgrounds. Sponsorship...