Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became mostly damage control. The White House rushed to deal with parts of Rowlands' story in which she claimed Morris had shared White House information with her. Not only did Morris show her Hillary's speech, she said, but he told her in advance about Clinton's offensive against tobacco and bragged about a deal he had worked out to provide Saudi financing for scholarships for children of American veterans of the Gulf War. Clinton aides said Morris had no White House pass nor the kind of high-level clearance that would give him access to national security secrets...
...Tobacco is not a potted plant--it doesn't take attacks quietly. No sooner were the FDA regulations previewed last summer than the industry filed suit in a North Carolina federal court to stop them, arguing that the agency has no authority to oversee cigarettes...
...Tobacco firms have also become heavy donors to the Republican Party, an investment that already has paid off in the G.O.P.-controlled Congress, with its hostility toward government regulation in general and the FDA in particular. Thanks to a bill approved earlier this year, Congress has 60 "legislative days" to overturn any agency regulation...
...industry also plans to fight the new advertising rules in court as an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. Earlier this year the Supreme Court struck down a state law that banned the mention of liquor prices in advertising. "The evidence is clear," says Brennan Dawson, spokesperson of the Tobacco Institute, "that the FDA's rules do not address the reasons youngsters smoke, will not work to reduce youth access to tobacco, and are an illegal expansion of this federal agency's authority." Or as they used to say in those old cigarette commercials, we'd rather fight than switch...
...TOBACCO: SMOKED...