Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mechanism for broadly raising energy prices could stifle economic growth and make motorists surly. Already an industry coalition has started a $13 million TV ad campaign predicting a 50[cent] increase in gas prices, which Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has denounced as "worthy of the best efforts of the tobacco industry...
MIAMI: The husband-and-wife legal team of Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt were the big winners Friday, as Big Tobacco settled its first-ever courtroom battle over secondhand smoke. The industry paid the plaintiffs? legal costs, and gave $300 million to bankroll a foundation that will research their illnesses...
According to the Boston Phoenix, Holmes Realty Trust has already offered retail space in the new complex to all of the longtime tenants, as well as to Wiener's Discount Tobacco Dealer and the Ethiopian Restaurant on Mass...
Moreover, look at the kinds of people alcohol kills. Drunk drivers kill toddlers. They kill teens. They kill whole families. Tobacco does not kill toddlers and teens. Tobacco strikes late. It kills, but at a very long remove in time. Its victims generally have already had their chance at life. Tobacco merely shortens life; alcohol can deprive people...
Still undecided which of the two poisons is more deserving of social disapprobation? Here's the ultimate test. Ask yourself this: If you knew your child was going to become addicted to either alcohol or tobacco, which would you choose...