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...these funds to use statistical evidence compiled by the Centers for Disease Control. "Profound sneak attack," charges one tobacco lobbyist. The tobacco industry and some associated industries, like U.S. Sugar, filed suit to repeal the bill; the Florida Supreme Court is expected to rule soon. Although last year Governor Lawton Chiles vetoed the legislature's repeal of the legislation, the lawmakers are expected to override that veto next month. Many have been swayed by lobbyists' arguments that if the state can sue the tobacco industry no one is safe, and the liquor industry and manufacturers of high-fat foods...
Residents of southern Florida were evacuated from coastal areas today as Gov. Lawton Chiles declared astate of emergency, closed state offices, activated the National Guard, and suspended toll-collecting on evacuation routes in preparation for the arrival Tuesday of Hurricane Erin. While not projected to be as lethal as Andrew was, Erin is expected to pound the southern part of the state with 90 mph winds, dumping up to 10 inches of rain and causing widespread flooding...
...Lawton Chileswas hospitalized after suffering a "little stroke" that may indicate he suffered a more serious attack. The 65-year-old Democrat temporarily suffered slurred speech, unsteady coordination and weakness Tuesday morning. Physicians in Tallahassee said it would take them at least a day to discover whether Chiles suffered a full stroke, and longer to know whether he suffered any brain damage...
...underway in Texas, Arizona and Colorado. In Orlando, a group called Save Our State today said its effort is part of a campaign to push the issue onto the national agenda by 1996. ButTIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Boothsays Florida will be a hard political sell, in part becauseGov. Lawton Chiles, a Prop 187 opponent, "feels strongly that you shouldn't turn people away from hospitals or children from classrooms...
...class action by three current smokers and the wife of a deceased smoker who claim that tobacco manufacturers hid the addictive properties of nicotine. If the suit proceeds, almost anyone who is "nicotine dependent" could join and seek up to $50,000 each from cigarette makers. Says Florida Governor Lawton Chiles: "It's time for the tobacco industry to take responsibility for the damage it does...