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Bill Clinton enjoys wrapping his lips around an unlit cigar. A top source at a local tobacconist's claims the President "smokes" Hoyo De Monterre Excalibur 1s ... The FDA's David Kessler admits to collegiate pipe smoking ... Anti- tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man ... Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton's Inauguration, he's rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford...
...Drug Administration chief David Kessler charged that a major tobacco firm secretly developed a high-nicotine tobacco and has started using it in its Richland, Viceroy and Raleigh brand cigarettes. Kessler told a congressional panel that Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. had told its researchers to lie to the FDA about the secret tobacco, known as Y-1, which Kessler says was grown in Brazil and distributed throughout the U.S. last year. Two shipping invoices aside, the House had to take Kessler's word for it, as he chose to keep all sources confidential. Tobacco company officials say Kessler...
Sources-GOOD: Journal of the National Cancer Institute; FDA...
...after decades of biotech setbacks and controversy, consumers finally have something they can sink their teeth into. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week endorsed as safe the first genetically altered food to be sold to consumers -- a tomato called the Flavr Savr and billed as offering "summertime taste" all year long. Calgene, the Davis, California- based company that produced Flavr Savr (and came up with that silly name), says its new tomato will appear in selected supermarkets in California and the Midwest this week and should be available across the rest of the country before...
...FDA says "Trust us" and okays genetically altered uber-produce...