Word: tobacco
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...DETROIT COMPUTER BULLETIN board lists the names of local agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and offers helpful advice on how to harass them. A licensed gun dealer, required to surrender his business records to ATF's national tracing center, coated them first with rat excrement. A flyer found posted in Pennsylvania reads WANTED: ATF AGENT. DEAD...
When TIME decided to undertake this week's story about the beleaguered Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the editors knew immediately where to turn. Senior writer Erik Larson, who joined the staff in February, is a recognized authority on America's gun culture, having published a series of groundbreaking front-page stories on the subject for the Wall Street Journal and a critically acclaimed book, Lethal Passage: The Journey of a Gun (Crown...
...happened to Louis Katona III, a Bucyrus, Ohio, real estate salesman and part-time police officer. He got to tell all about it when the National Rifle Association flew him to its annual meeting in Phoenix last spring--how agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the "jackbooted fascists" of N.R.A. lore, had raided his home and seized his machine-gun collection. At the time, he estimated the guns' value at about $300,000 and kept them locked inside a walk-in vault in his basement, expecting them one day to pay for the college educations...
DIED. M0RTON L. LEVIN, 91, epidemiologist; in Riverhead, New York. One of the first medical researchers to link tobacco and lung cancer, Levin tracked patients from 1938 to '50 and concluded in a 1950 Journal of the American Medical Association article that lung cancer was more than twice as likely to strike a smoker as a nonsmoker...
Should cigarettes be under stricter controls? That long-burning issue heated up on two fronts last week. After years of pushing toward regulating nicotine as an addictive drug -- and meeting resistance from Congress and the tobacco lobby -- the Food and Drug Administration passed the issue to the White House. The agency announced that it was urging relatively mild new regulations aimed at curbing smoking among youngsters. Among them: banning cigarette machines and stiffening penalties for vendors who sell tobacco to minors...