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Even if the Cambridge law goes largely unenforced on campus, it is bound to have a positive impact. At the very least, non-smokers probably will feel a little less uncomfortable about asking smokers to snuff out cigarettes. Thanks to the ordinance, the College now will relocate the smoker--and not the offended suite mate--when smoking disrupts a rooming group...
Even the proverbial smoke-filled room so beloved by politicians is endangered. Democratic Congressman James Scheuer of New York last week introduced the Non-Smokers Protection Act of 1986, which would snuff out smoking in federal buildings across the country, including the corridors and committee rooms of Congress. Though the legislation will probably not pass this term, Scheuer, who has five no-smoking signs (one in four languages) in his office, is determined to keep trying. "There are many federal workers, including myself, who are sick and tired of having to toil in the thick veil of hazy and noxious...
...completely ignores the real reason for the ruling--the enforcement mechanism (of OMB and CAO mandatory cuts) puts direct executive power in the legislative branch through the CAO. This decision hardly makes the law useless. A simple revision transferring responsibility solely to the OMB (in the executive branch) would snuff out this objection...
Your girlfriend says to you: "Why can't you be more like Sam Shepard?" She buys you denim jackets, refuses to wash your bluejeans, pickles your tongue with shots of tequila. "Why don't you buy a lasso?" she suggests. "Buck broncos, for Christ's sake. Dip snuff, do chaw, go smokeless, anything...
...back a prohibition of all cigarette advertising. Such commercials have been forbidden on television and radio for the past 15 years, and the A.M.A. will now lobby to get Congress to extend the injunction to newspapers, magazines, billboards and even skywriting. The association would also prohibit ads for snuff and chewing tobacco. This sweeping ban is necessary, the doctors argue, because the health risks are so great. Although the percentage of Americans who smoke has been declining, some experts believe that perhaps 1,000 deaths in the U.S. each day are associated with smoking cigarettes...