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...hung over U.S. tobacco companies for years lifted slightly last week. In Philadelphia, a federal appeals court ruled that Philip Morris, the Liggett Group, the Loews Corp. and Loews Theatres did not have to compensate Antonio Cipollone for the death of his wife Rose, a pack-a-day smoker who died of lung cancer in 1984. The court's reason: cigarette-package health warnings that are mandatory under federal law protect the tobacco giants from claims that they fail to provide adequate notice of smoking's hazards. The decision in the liability lawsuit may affect almost 100 pending civil actions...
Pity the poor smoker. If he began puffing away as a teenager, he was probably forced to light up in the high school bathroom, away from the forbidding glares of teachers and parents. He grew up, got a job, raised a family and in general became a responsible, upstanding citizen. But he still smokes. There he is, sitting in a restaurant or waiting in a movie line or getting his shoes shined, and he pulls out a cigarette. Suddenly a stranger appears, tugs at his elbow and says ever so sweetly, "Thank you for not smoking...
Passions have never run higher about where and when smokers may light up. "There's a new tyrannical majority that wants to deprive the rest of us of our rights," charges New York City Television Reporter David Diaz, a pack-a- day man. Replies ABC-TV Washington Correspondent Sam Donaldson, an ex- smoker who has been zealously lobbying the White House to ban smoking at press conferences: "I don't think smokers have any rights when it comes to a collision of smokers' vs. nonsmokers' wishes...
...Community Hospital in Melrose Park, Ill., has had no dearth of job applicants. In fact, says Bruce Nagel, director of human resources, "we've had people say, 'I want to work here because of your stand on smoking.' " But other job seekers are not so happy. Amy Lipson, a smoker, filed a complaint with New York State's division of human rights after she was turned down for a position at Fortunoff's, a department store in Westbury. "In general, smokers are a self-indulgent group and selfish people, who ignore the rules against smoking and could endanger themselves...
Since August, when Bullitt--a longtime smoker--died of lung cancer, his relatives have had to decide whether they would drop the case or amend it by becoming the new plantiffs...