Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surgeon General Koop strikes sparks with an antismoking broadside that confirms tobacco, like cocaine or heroin, is addictive...
...adherents from every part of the political spectrum. Some extreme libertarians contend that the Government has no business telling citizens what they may or may not put into their bodies. A much larger group contends that it is hypocritical to ban narcotics while allowing the sale of alcohol and tobacco, two substances that, this group insists, kill far more people by undermining their health and, in the case of alcohol, lead to innumerable auto crashes, barroom brawls and savage family fights. "We've already decriminalized two drugs, alcohol and tobacco," says Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz...
...York City's Harlem, poses a long string of questions for those who would legalize drugs. Among them: Which drugs should be permitted, just marijuana or the more damaging heroin, cocaine and angel dust? How would they be sold, by prescription through hospitals and clinics or in "drugstores," tobacco shops, even supermarkets? Would there be an age limit, and how would it be enforced? Would users be permitted to buy as much as they wanted, even if their demands became insatiable as their addictions deepened? Or would there be some kind of so-many-grams-per- customer limit...
Revenues. Treatment programs could be financed by taxes on drugs, like taxes on alcohol and tobacco...
...give up smoking cigarettes knows the meaning of being hooked. Even those who succeed in quitting for the first time suffer the same 75% relapse rate as recovering alcoholics and heroin addicts. Last week the U.S. Surgeon General made official what everyone has recognized for a long time: tobacco, like cocaine or heroin, is addictive. In a no-holds-barred, 618-page report, the forthright C. Everett Koop not only proclaimed that "cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addicting" but also urged that they should be treated with the same caution as illegal street narcotics...