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...were very proud that we got ads from some of the biggest advertising names in the nation," said Armstrong. Major corporations, including General Motors, Marlboro, Coke and Nestle paid more than $35,000 for full page ads in the parody...
...crack dealers' doors and put stuffed animals in the windows of abandoned buildings as a symbolic gesture to reclaim them from drug users. In New Mexico, two children turn in their parents to the police for marijuana possession, just as a California girl did her coke-using parents a week earlier. In Washington, the President of the U.S., the Vice President and most of the White House staff patriotically provide urine samples so that it can be seen if they have within the past few days consumed any heroin, cocaine, marijuana, PCP or hallucinogens...
...case, this is hardly the nation's first drug crisis, nor will it be the last. Just as the U.S. periodically launches antidrug crusades, it regularly succumbs to new waves of forbidden indulgences. In the late 19th century, Americans swigged the true Classic Coke, Coca-Cola bottled with a dash of cocaine. A panicked nation banished cocaine to the shadows back then, but over the years new drugs -- from pot to heroin to LSD -- always seemed to come along, promising momentary escape and delivering long-term misery and waste...
...today's crisis. Statistics to be released by the National Institute on Drug Abuse this month will show rather surprisingly that the current cocaine epidemic has already peaked, and the use of other drugs is declining significantly. Drugs kill, but not nearly so often as the family car. Coke and heroin cause much less overall harm, in statistical terms, than alcohol or tobacco...
...more vigorously against drug abuse at rallies and on television. Last week a number of prominent pros, including basketball's Julius Erving and baseball's Dave Winfield, filmed commercials urging kids to say no to drugs. A striking commercial currently on the air features Mercury Morris saying to coke users, "A phone call could help you. It took prison to help...