Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's an entire movie--quite a bad one, full of unwontedly tortured acting and a wildly wrong camera style--called Smoke. That in turn spawned a companion film, the much better Blue in the Face, to be released in the fall. Both revel in the outlaw ecstasies of tobacco...
DECLARING WAR ON TOBACCO...
President Clinton launched a dramatic new assault against the sale of tobacco to children. The President approved a groundbreaking decision by the Food and Drug Administration that classifies cigarettes as a type of "medical device" capable of delivering an addictive drug--nicotine. The decision triggers FDA regulation, and will be used to impose anti-tobacco rules to protect children. Among them: a strict prohibition of sales to minors, a ban on cigarette-vending machines and stringent curbs on ads aimed at youngsters. The tobacco industry immediately filed suit to stop the measures...
When Democrats ran the house, the health and environment subcommittee office was a no-smoking preserve ruled by anti- tobacco crusader Representative Henry Waxman. Today the subcommittee is part of the domain of Republican Thomas Bliley Jr., a pipe lover who hails from the tobacco state of Virginia. Smoking is now accepted in the old subcommittee room, and congressional aides gleefully flick their ashes into a glass ashtray placed atop Waxman's picture...
...this smoke-free piety went out in January with the arrival of the new Republican majority. Some of the top men in the House leadership are avid tobacco users. House majority leader Dick Armey and Republican Conference chairman John Boehner puff cigarettes, and House majority whip Tom DeLay often sports a wad of tobacco inside his lower lip. In the 104th Congress, smoking defines the angry-white-male revolution. It is the congressional equivalent of Ronald Reagan reaching for the Clint Eastwood "make-my-day" mythology. They're not politicians; they're Marlboro...