Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general: "You need to play a large role in cleaning up your act . . . The liberal news media is guilty of intellectual dishonesty. These liberal elitists shot themselves in the foot. The American people don't trust the news media. You ought to know. You see what they do to tobacco every...
...what looked like a bow to the tobacco industry, the Speaker-to-be passed over Moorehead a second time in choosing the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The outgoing Democratic chairman, John Dingell, was the impresario of this year's subcommittee hearings on whether cigarette companies were manipulating the nicotine level of their product. The new head will be Thomas Bliley Jr. of the tobacco state of Virginia, who thinks cigarette regulation has gone quite far enough already. "Carlos is too kind a man to get into the kind of vicious fights that will occur over issues before...
...dropped out. One actor who remained from the first pilot was Nimoy as Mr. Spock -- though only after Roddenberry persuaded NBC not to drop the character. The network had other alarming suggestions: at one point, Roddenberry recalled, NBC executives suggested that Spock smoke a space cigarette, to please a tobacco-company sponsor...
...Supreme Court kept alive a Californian's lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and two advertising agencies that alleges ads for Camel cigarettes improperly target minors. The companies had attempted to get the lawsuit dismissed in California state court, claiming that federal cigarette labeling and advertising regulations supercede state law. Today the Supreme Court gave California courts the green light to decide the case...
...more grilling of tobacco execs in new Republican Congress...