Word: outlaw
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Last week, a House subcommittee passed the Smoke-Free Environment Act, thus moving on a bill that would outlaw smoking in most public areas, including almost all businesses. Recent legislation has banned cigarettes in public schools and army tanks. And the Food and Drug Administration announced several months ago that it would seek to regulate nicotine as an addictive drug...
...familiarity was somewhat mutual. Rubin admits that he doesn't listen to much country music but says he was interested in Cash from a "mythological" standpoint. "I don't see him as a country act," Rubin says. "I would say he embodies rock 'n' roll. He's an outlaw figure, and that is the essence of what rock 'n' roll is." When he made his pitch, Rubin was persuasive. "He immediately made me understand and believe that he really wanted to get the best out of me as an artist," says Cash. "There would be no clock in the studio...
...paradox of leadership is that voters are partial to candidates who seem both bigger than they are and yet are also one of them. When Mandela lived underground as an outlaw in the early 1960s and was dubbed the Black Pimpernel by the South African press for his ability to elude the police, his colleagues marveled at how he blended in with the people. He usually disguised himself as a chauffeur; he would don a long dustcoat, hunch his shoulders and, suddenly, this tall, singularly regal figure was transformed into one of the huddled masses moving along the streets...
...both sides can argue history. Smoking proponents warn that the current antismoking campaign could end up like Prohibition in the 1920s: banning cigarettes would be impossible to enforce and would only increase their outlaw appeal. "I think there's a strict analogy here," says Klein. "Both drugs have been used by cultures since the dawn of civilization; they can have very deleterious effects on society, but trying to ban them by law brings about circumstances which are much worse...
...they cannot erase the stigma. Smoking is seen, and smelled, as an insult to civilization. It is also one of the few insults that civilization can forcefully address. The mannerly middle class may not be able to outlaw assault weapons or rap music or violent movies, but it can shove smokers (usually the working class, the minorities and the young) into the pariah class, right next to the serial killers...