Word: tobacco
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WASHINGTON: Calling the current tobacco settlement legislation "the politics of punishment," RJ Reynolds CEO Steven Goldstone announced Wednesday that his company wanted no part of the Senate's vision of the deal -- and that the rest of the Big Five would soon follow...
...media violence, the debate there is fast approaching the same point that discussions about the health impact of tobacco reached some time ago--it's over. Few researchers bother any longer to dispute that bloodshed on TV and in the movies has an effect on the kids who witness it. Added to the mix now are video games, at least the ones built around the model of hunt and kill. Captivated by effects that are ever more graphic, game boys learn to associate gusts of "blood" with the primal gratifications of scoring. In Golden Eye, a big seller, the player...
WASHINGTON: First RJR sends out word that it wants out of the proposed tobacco deal; then the industry's No. 2 player hastily denies it. But as John McCain's settlement bill in the Senate gets harsher and harsher, the signal was clear: Big Tobacco is thinking about a fight...
...Tobacco has no friends on the Hill in this one," says TIME Washington correspondent Bruce Van Voorst. "The Senate has been thumbing its nose at the industry all week." McCain was unworried Thursday -- his concern right now is to get the bill through Congress -- but as Van Voorst says, "Tobacco is not without cards in this game." RJR is prepared to fight any restrictions on industry advertising in the courts as a First Amendment violation -- and experts say they more than have a case...
...rest of the industry is still waiting to see Congress's final product -- but they're sure to hate it. McCain's tough line may all be part of the negotiating game, but cigarette companies are letting him know that as long as tobacco is a legal business, it's going to take both sides to keep this dance out of court...