Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smoking and Health, who first saw the train ads in his 13-year-old son's copy of Sports Illustrated. "It is another trick to make smoking the way teenage boys assert their independence and proclaim their masculinity. And it's another reason why restrictions should be placed on tobacco advertising and marketing...
...shadows, Kessler is an anomaly. He seems to make decisions not for political expediency but because he sincerely believes he is doing right. In the process, he has amassed a list of powerful foes that would make lesser men pack up and leave town. He has enraged the tobacco industry, the vitamin industry and the medical-device industry. A self-described Republican, he has alienated most of Congress's Republican majority, including Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, his former boss and mentor. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has called him a "bully" and a "thug" and accused him of using...
...sharply criticized all of the agencies that were involved. "While Randy Weaver made mistakes," read the report. "So did every federal law enforcement agency involved in the Ruby Ridge incident." In addition to the FBI, the committee scored the U.S. Marshals Service and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The report singled out FBI Director Louis Freeh, who took office after the shootout, for using "questionable judgement" when he merely reprimanded, then promoted, Larry Potts, his former deputy and friend. Potts, who has been removed from the FBI, is one of five top FBI officials under investigation...
...produces is enough to bring it support from people who see it as an indirect route to the Speaker's ear. "Of all the think tanks, that's one whose reports are not just going to sit on the shelf,'' says lobbyist Jim Tozzi, whose firm has helped tobacco and chemical firms fight government regulations. "If I give somebody money, I want to make sure the report will be read. If I give to that group, I know it will...
Thus, while smoking at Harvard can give one a sense of community with other smokers, it can also isolate one from students who dislike exposure to tobacco smoke...