Word: seatbelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Referring to the 1986 Massachusetts vote repealing the seatbelt law by a 54 to 46 percent margin, Ford says: "People in Massachusetts really value their freedom...
Social practices--such as alcohol and drug abuse, smoking, reckless driving and lack of seatbelt use--are the "things that account for the major problems of health in this country," Mann said...
...backing the recent fuel efficiency bills in Congress which are part of the clean air package. These laws would raise average mileage to 40 miles per gallon, a technologically simple and inexpensive measure (many cars already get better gas mileage). With the use of airbags and the spread of seatbelt laws, fuel-efficient cars do not have to be unsafe cars...