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Representative Henry Waxman of California will be the first to heed the FDA's call for action, holding hearings before his Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. Waxman believes that "people should be allowed to smoke but not endanger others by subjecting them to secondhand smoke." Besides restricting smoking in public places, he says, the government might regulate the levels of nicotine in cigarettes and require warnings that the chemical is addictive...
...Everyone knows that a woman who smokes during pregnancy may harm the fetus. It now appears that secondhand smoke can do the same. In tests on newborns, those whose mothers worked or lived with smokers had twice the level of nicotine-related compounds in their system as those whose mothers lived in a smoke-free setting...
...course, such a young person (Duritz is 29) blathering on about oblivion can be annoying. At times his wordy compositions come off sounding like secondhand Springsteen. And it doesn't help when Duritz compares himself to other performers. On Mr. Jones, an ironic examination of the lure of fame, he declares, "I want to be Bob Dylan." Duritz is no Dylan (neither, for that matter, is Dylan these days). Still, much of this album is a pleasure to hear. If Dylan, Morrison or some other rock-'n'-roll hero ever calls in sick for a Hall of Fame gig, Counting...
...Fontana mill is the largest plant bought in the U.S. and taken home by the Chinese, but it is hardly the only one. In North Carolina the Chinese picked up a secondhand nuclear-plant control room, in Pennsylvania they purchased a used microchip-making facility, and in Michigan they bought an auto-engine assembly line. If China's economy keeps going along as it has been, the steel, microchips and engines made in these newly exported plants may ironically come back to America one day -- as imports...
Banzhaf is looking forward to the day when it won't take a custody battle to defend children against secondhand smoke. "I am certainly not suggesting that every time a parent lights up in the same room, we're going to cry child abuse," he says. "But the same protection will eventually be extended to children in ongoing marriages through child-neglect proceedings." Most public health officials share Banzhaf's exasperation. Says Dr. Ronald Davis, medical director of the Michigan public health department: "When I see parents smoking around their kids, I have the same reaction as I do toward...