Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, those who started smoking amidst the anti-smoking campaign made that decision fully aware of many of the dangers of cigarette smoke. For the past 24 years, "Surgeon General's Warning: Smoking is hazardous to your health" has appeared on all cigarette boxes and in cigarette ads. As adults who knew the risks associated with tobacco, smoking was their prerogative. Why should states waste time and money battling tobacco companies in the courts over smokers who made a poor, but autonomous and informed, decision...
...treatment of myriad cases of emphysema and lung cancer, have launched their own assault against tobacco companies. Yet they have been unable to win in a court of law, despite revelations of the addictive properties of nicotine. Tobacco companies have never paid a cent for health problems incurred by smoking. Fortunately, now that the Liggett agreement will unearth older documents, the states may have more fire-power. But what will be the end to this war? Will states be happy with the destruction of Philip Morris, which has 48 percent of the market share? Even if the monolith...
...Drug Administration rules that require smokers up to the age of 27 to show photo ID cards when buying cigarettes. (The regulations bar tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 18.) Said Vice President Gore, who greeted the Liggett deal as a breath of fresh air in a smoke-filled room: "It's about time the tobacco companies told the American people the truth...
Will smokers take Liggett's mea culpas to heart and light up less often? After declining for years, smoking has leveled off, and teens seem to be increasing their intake. Older smokers may pay more heed than younger ones to warnings about addiction on Liggett cigarette labels. That's because the young are more apt to look upon smoking as cool and the consequences a distant threat. And they may cling to that view even when a major manufacturer admits that with regard to the truth about cigarettes and health, it has been blowing smoke for years...
Back on the battlefield, Oaks calmed down somewhat as the smoke cleared. "The system's good," he conceded, "when it works." And apparently it was working well enough to make a difference. When, after nearly seven hours, Army referees declared the battle over last Tuesday--with EXFOR's attack stalled at OPFOR's main defensive line of tanks and minefields--they called it a draw. EXFOR, as the attacking force, went into the battle with more tanks. At the end, OPFOR had 18 and EXFOR 22. "It went better than we had a right to expect," said General William Hartzog...