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...upset because the number of places where lighting up is allowed keeps shrinking and ashtrays are rapidly becoming collectors' items. Just this month have come moves to ban smoking in McDonald's company-owned restaurants, in U.S. military workplaces and in every work space, including restaurants and bars, throughout Maryland. Smokers are also dismayed that the Clinton Administration hopes to finance a large part of health-care reform with a 75 cents-a-pack increase in the U.S. cigarette tax (now 24 cents a pack). More than 16,000 industry supporters, many of them tobacco workers bused in by their...
...decree that will affect 2.6 million uniformed and civilian personnel, the Defense Department banned smoking from the military workplace. And Maryland became the first state to stub out smoking in all workplaces -- including bars, restaurants and convention facilities as well as offices. In Washington, 20,000 angry smokers and tobacco-industry workers demonstrated against an Administration proposal to raise the federal excise tax from 24 cents a pack to 99 cents...
REALITY: During the past 100 years, the sea level has risen 1 ft. along the U.S. Atlantic Coast, causing beaches to recede between 200 ft. and 300 ft. on average. Stephen Leatherman, director of the University of Maryland's Laboratory for Coastal Research, says sea level is now at the highest mark in the past 5,000 years and is rising as much as 10 times as fast as before...
...problem for the Congressional Black Caucus, whose chairman, Representative Kweisi Mfume of Maryland, has embroiled himself in controversy by pledging a "covenant" of cooperation -- since disavowed -- with both Farrakhan and mainstream black leaders...
THOUGH THEY TEND TO COST LESS than long prison terms, boot camps haven't had much impact on recidivism. "We're not finding any significant difference from similar offenders who are put on probation or who serve their time," says Doris MacKenzie, a University of Maryland researcher who has studied eight programs. As many as 60% of the graduates are arrested within a year of returning to their old haunts...