Word: tobacco
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...things--heroes, villains, conflicts--that we've had to inflate little things and pretend they're big. Our statesmen used to revile Hitler, Mussolini, the godless Reds--large and sinister enemies who wanted to take over the world. Now the the focus of evil in American life is...the tobacco industry. The fellows who make cigarettes may be--indeed are--mendacious, but they do produce a legal product that earlier generations found alternately pleasurable and obnoxious but never evil. Our parents and our grandparents worried about polio epidemics. Today the great public-health crisis is the secondhand smoke from...
...absolutely agree with Charles Krauthammer's "The New Prohibitionism" [ESSAY, Oct. 6], which points out that the frenzied crusade against tobacco has allowed alcohol to get a free ride. Why do we accept the spread of alcoholism without trying to campaign against it? The fact that "alcohol is far more deadly than tobacco to innocent bystanders" should move politicians, the medical community and all others concerned to take action. DONALD J. DEFRAIN Santee, Calif...
Krauthammer asks a final question: "If you knew your child was going to become addicted to either alcohol or tobacco, which would you choose?" My answer: alcohol. I have been drinking alcohol for 60 years, but if I hadn't quit smoking 30 years ago, I would have died long ago. JOHN T. DWYER San Diego...
...when the Branch Davidian compound burned to the ground, a vast majority of Americans assumed that the conduct of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was just, David Koresh was a religious fanatic, and the Branch Davidians were a legitimate threat to the public. But this tale was told from only one perspective...
SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between the TOBACCO INDUSTRY and NORMA BROIN, 42, lead plaintiff in the $5 billion class action filed on behalf of 60,000 flight attendants seeking damages for secondhand-smoke-related health problems; in Miami. Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Lorillard agreed to pay $300 million to set up a research foundation on cancer...