Word: tobacco
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...page draft document detailing the scheme was leaked to the press late last week. The plan would cost the government $700 billion over the first five years and be funded in part by $105 billion in new taxes on large corporations as well as additional taxes on tobacco and alcohol. The White House will also seek $238 billion in Medicare and Medicaid savings. On Capitol Hill, the First Lady said the Administration was open to discuss changes in the plan, but not from "a standpat, negative, naysaying opposition...
...Administration plans some kind of publicity event on five of the six days after the conference, each probably featuring a horror story of inefficiency. Gore has compiled an extensive list, headed by the 10 pages of specifications for ashtrays -- or, as they are known to the government, "ash receivers, tobacco (desk type...
...Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc) have found yet another way in which smoking is harmful: smokers have a 50% greater chance of contracting deadly myeloid leukemia, which will afict 27,000 Americans this year. Tobacco smoke was determined to cause nearly 25% of all cases...
Cash-hungry nations like China and the former Eastern bloc countries have found a niche market in guns that can slip in even under the new regulations. "As opposed to cheap, shoddy Saturday-night specials," says Jack Killorin, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, "you've got very high-quality firearms coming in at bargain-basement prices." A fine Czech Republic semiautomatic handgun called the CZ, formerly made for infantry use, sells for about $250, in contrast to $700 to $850 for a comparable Austrian or Swiss handgun...
Ensuring a further price war in the tobacco industry, Philip Morris decided to make permanent the temporary price reductions on Marlboro cigarettes that it put into effect in April and to extend price cuts to its other brands...