Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken its cue from antismoking campaigns. Restrictions on public smoking gained momentum after nonsmokers learned about the dangers of secondhand smoke. Once those in the smokeless majority realized that their own health and quality of life were directly affected, they stood up and demanded their right to a tobacco-free airspace. In the same way, more and more students who drink little or no alcohol have focused on the fact that other people's drunkenness isn't just unpleasant. It often leads to physical and sexual assaults and even death, especially when wasted students climb behind the wheel...
...clues to identify the so called "unabomber" and are relying completely on help from the public, a source tells TIME San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson. Since the mailbomb killing Sunday of a Madison Ave. executive in North Caldwell, N.J., investigators from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and the Postal Service have received about 500 calls with tips on the bomber, an ATF source told Jackson. "It takes time tracking them down, but they are still appealing to the public to call in with tips," says Jackson. "They have no clues." Two they have...
...Cambridge Department of Health and Hospitals' (DHH) Tobacco Control Program has been negotiating with Cambridge store owners since September regarding how much they should increase the number of seats reserved for non-smokers in restaurants...
...anticipating calling for a 100 percent ban," Pamela D. Anderson, the Tobacco Control Program's policy coordinator, said Monday. "We are trying to help the public without running into the same problems as Brookline...
Negotiations between the owners and the Tobacco Control Program have completed their first stage, according to Anderson, and in January both sides will begin "going back to [their] constituencies" to formulate more detailed proposals