Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, when things look easy, he almost seems to look for ways to make them harder, move to where he's more comfortable. Instead of spending his summer telling voters why he wants to be President, he lit bonfires over abortion, tobacco, assault weapons, barked at American icons like Katie Couric and Dr. C. Everett Koop, and advocated reopening Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House one day after a bomb went off in Atlanta. He has stuck with a vow of silence to keep from getting in trouble, uncharacteristically refusing to answer reporters' campaign-trail questions...
...surprised you forgot a major aspect of Bob Dole's position on tobacco, gun control and other issues [NATION, July 15]: once he makes up his mind, he seems to be full of indecision. JOSEPH B. MIRSKY West Palm Beach, Florida...
...British researchers have concluded that nearly two-thirds of SUDDEN-INFANT-DEATH SYNDROME cases are linked to tobacco smoke. Even if a baby is merely in a room where smoking has occurred, its risk of dying from SIDS can increase...
DIED. THOMAS SANDEFUR, 56, Brown & Williamson's ex-chairman who, along with other tobacco chiefs, told Congress in 1994 that he did not believe nicotine was addictive; of aplastic anemia; in Louisville, Kentucky...
What does smoking a cigarette have in common with snorting cocaine? Not a great deal, or so most people like to believe. In fact, for weeks Bob Dole has been playing into the conventional wisdom--and the hands of his supporters in the tobacco industry--by saying on campaign stops across the country that though nicotine may be habit forming, that doesn't necessarily make it addictive. Scientists, however, say otherwise. And last week, in an article published by the journal Nature, a team of Italian researchers provided perhaps the most compelling reason yet to classify nicotine as an addictive...