Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arguing that the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the defendant in this case, knew that cigarette smoking was addictive long before this fact was made public by the U.S. Surgeon General, Belli is not attempting to mitigate somehow his client's responsibility for choosing to smoke cigarettes. Rather he hopes to establish that the company was negligent and withheld crucial information about its product. Automobile companies that manufacture dangerous cars and do not tell their customers about potential safety hazards are held liable for resulting accidents and injuries; why not cigarette companies...
...that long-term coffee use is far more dangerous than sporadic caffeine concentrations. Wacker said that the study was "dealing with fairly small numbers" and hence unworthy of alarm. He added that if coffee drinking does cause heart trouble, it is certainly not as dangerous to consumers as tobacco addiction...
...interests, nor are they left-wing issues. The special interests in the case of toxic dumping are the chemical companies, in whose interest it is to contaminate public drinking water. Real special interests, the Democrats should remind people more often, are mostly under the Republican umbrella: defense contractors, the tobacco lobby, the NRA, chemical companies. Those groups speak for themselves and no one else, usually against the public interest...
...single resort hotel, called Laurel-in-the-Pines, in Lakewood, N.J. By 1955 they had twelve hotels, and in 1960 they hit the big time by buying control of Loews Theaters. After a quarter-century of further growth and acquisitions, including takeovers of CNA Insurance and Lorillard Tobacco, the Tisches run a company with assets of more than $12.5 billion. The brothers have amassed personal fortunes that total an estimated $1.7 billion...
...Tobacco, leather products, canned fruit, insurance and telephone equipment. That sounds like a bizarre shopping list, but those are the U.S. exports that the Reagan Administration has taken up as part of its month-old fight to put an end to unfair trade practices and open foreign markets for American companies. Last week the list grew longer, when the White House accused the Common Market and South Korea of more unfair trading procedures...