Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jesse Helms should have to look the poor of this country in the face, especially the children, and explain why Government support of the poor is being drastically curtailed while subsidies to the tobacco industry, which is causing cancer in many Americans, are not touched. Larry G. Patton Houston...
First use of a blowtorch to warm the field for a home opener -Montreal Expos, April 14. Another record set that day: first package of chewing tobacco to freeze in the back pocket of an active third baseman (Lance Parrish...
...Senate Agriculture Committee, Helms will play a key role in the passage of this year's farm bill, and he remains stubbornly set to cut way back on food stamps. The Administration has already bowed to the chairman: Chief Budget Cutter David Stockman carefully exempted subsidies for growing tobacco, one of North Carolina's biggest exports, from any reduction...
When the U.S. Government began bashing business monopolies, or near monopolies, around the turn of the century, the targets were big, bad and mean, and they existed in almost every basic industry. Standard Oil controlled 84% of U.S. oil marketing, competitors to American Tobacco were mere puffs of smoke and United States Steel was an incredible amalgam of 148 companies that dwarfed runners-up. Washington's vigorous trustbusters lashed out against a variety of anticompetitive practices: Hollywood studios' control of movie theaters, Eastman Kodak's grip on film processing and United Shoe Machinery's knot...
...Philip Morris can produce experts who disagree with the prevailing wisdom. As the director of the Tobacco Research Institute, Gary L. Huber, points out, "the truth is that the vast majority of smokers suffer no disease." In fact, Philip Morris will concede a single difference between smokers and non-smokers: "Generally, smokers tend to be more assertive, time-conscious and energetic than non-smokers...