Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distributed as the DNC and RNC see fit, doesn't come into play until the primaries are over. For McCain, it is plenty evil enough. For Clinton and Gore, soft money was the Buddhist monks and the Lincoln bedroom. For the Republicans, it is the NRA and Big Tobacco ? and the source of Mitch McConnell's power. For a lonely maverick on Capitol Hill, it is the source of all that is infuriating about lawmaking: pork barrels, partisanship, gridlock and the refusal of individuals to occasionally heed their consciences instead of their parties. It is why smart men like Bill...
...research is increasing the pressure to require federal warning labels on cigars similar to the ones on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. California already requires such labels, and may strengthen their wording, spurred in part by reports that more teens are smoking cigars...
Fine, some say, but does Newman have to sing his own songs? He has always sounded like a toothless varmint, clawing the arms of a backwoods rocking chair and spitting out his views on love and politics as if they were gobs of rancid tobacco juice. But at 55, he has grown into the crabbiness of his voice, one that both feels pain and dishes it out. It perfectly suits the fables in this creepily beautiful CD, a sermon not from the mount but from the depths. Newman deserves to be cynical about everything but his supreme gift for telling...
Four million people died as a result of tobacco in 1998, and by 2025, ten million people will die--most of them in developing countries, according to Satcher...
Americans need to "realize that we are part of a global community--tobacco moves from one country to another just as diseases do," Satcher says...