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...June to impose the first-ever state income tax. Antitax protesters, egged on by a talk-radio host, surrounded the capitol, banging on the doors, throwing rocks through windows and scaring legislators into dropping the new tax. Instead they used the state's $560 million share of the national tobacco settlement to balance the books. More than a dozen states have tapped rainy-day funds or tobacco money...
...Teenagers in Jordan in that age group who were offered free cigarettes by tobacco companies...
...green, rich cattle, wheat and tobacco lands of Chinhoyi, 120 km northwest of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, are remembered as the scene of early skirmishes in the black guerrilla war more than two decades ago that ended white rule in what was then Rhodesia. Last week most of the 90 farms around Chinhoyi were deserted. Many had been looted and pillaged by mobs acting with the blessing of President Robert Mugabe. Farm equipment, seed and fertilizer were stolen, and livestock killed or driven into the fields. "I feel as though I've been raped," said a Chinhoyi farmer, surveying...
...more than 90% of white-owned farmland for black resettlement. Nine white farmers have died in the accompanying violence. Scores of black farm workers have been injured, and thousands more have been driven from the land by militant squatters. Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers' Union says supplies of maize, wheat, tobacco, coffee, meat and dairy products have fallen by 20% to 50%, and farmers are liquidating their herds. Even Zimbabwe's protected wild life is being slaughtered as game farms and private reserves are invaded. The mobs have marched on retail stores, mines and factories. If that weren't bad enough...
TARGETING KIDS A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that tobacco companies have broken a promise, made in their 1998 settlement with state governments, to cut back on advertising aimed at minors. Camel, Marlboro and Newport--brands favored by teens--have actually increased budgets for advertising in magazines like PEOPLE, Rolling Stone and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED that have significant young audiences...