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...antismoking campaigns in the U.S. and Singapore have demonstrated, tough laws and peer pressure can fast reduce the smoker from a sophisticate to a social pariah. Throughout Europe and Asia, a growing body of laws, policies and guidelines is confining smokers to ever smaller zones. In January, France will prohibit all tobacco advertising. And in the developing countries of Asia, a mounting awareness of the ill effects of smoking is prodding governments...
...understand that people may see smoking as a social activity and are reluctant to prohibit it at dances, but those who cannot tolerate smoke are prevented from participating through no fault of their own, Is this fair...
...ordinance exempts the Jewish ritual slaughter techniques practiced by kosher butchers, because kosher slaughter methods are designed to prevent the animals' suffering while Santeria sacrifices are not. The issue of cruelty to animals, say the city officials, distinguishes rites deserving of protection from rites which the city can prohibit...
...gray wolves, have suddenly appeared. Officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for example, fear that their long-discussed plans to reintroduce wolves to Yellowstone could become sidetracked. The Endangered Species Act would require the Federal Government to protect wild wolves from hunters and ranchers, and could prohibit the reintroduction of other wolves. Conservationists are worried that there will be too few immigrant animals to start a thriving population, and that a complacent public will mistakenly assume that the problem of getting wolves back into Yellowstone has been solved...
Should lobbyists moonlight for presidential campaigns? Montana Senator Max Baucus has introduced a bill to prohibit senior campaign officials from lobbying for foreign interests to "ensure that they do not use their public positions to promote the agendas of their private-sector clients." But the problem isn't only foreign lobbyists. As long as presidential candidates rely on the advice of those whose salaries are paid by special interests, foreign or domestic, they reinforce the impression that government is for sale to the highest bidder...