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...Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare that Califano had his biggest impact: he started the national crusade against smoking. That campaign has probably saved tens of thousands of lives over the years, but it sent the tobacco industry and its pet politicians into a rage. Carter fired Califano from the Cabinet, partly to mollify the tobacco interests but also because, inevitably, Califano was just too much an insider. --By John F. Stacks
...Ends Philip Morris International, makers of Marlboro, agreed to pay the E.U. $1 billion to head off legal action over the firm's alleged collusion with cigarette smugglers. The deal, involving the largest sum Brussels has ever squeezed out of a private corporation, may not be the last: Japan Tobacco is eager to end a similar dispute with...
HEALTH: A statin surprise; teen-sex report; obesity vs. tobacco...
...report from the CDC last week should put them to rest. According to the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, rich diets and sedentary lifestyles led to 400,000 deaths in 2000, just behind the nation's No. 1 cause of preventable deaths: tobacco (435,000). By next year obesity will probably kill more Americans than smoking. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson used the occasion to launch a series of clever public-service ads, but antiobesity activists calling for tough government action were not amused. Nor were they pleased by Republicans in the House...
...arrogance, greed and lack of social conscience of the CEOs of big pharmaceutical firms are comparable to those of tobacco-company executives in the recent past. Eventually the drug companies' CEOs will get their comeuppance too. JOHN MITCHEM San Jose, Calif...