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...supposed to be doing. It removes whatever obstacle this case would have been to my giving everything to this job for the next two years. Every hour, every minute I spend diverted on these questions is disserving the American people. I'm going to be focused now on tobacco legislation, education, Social Security...
TIME: How do you feel about Senator McCain's tobacco compromise...
Clinton: While it doesn't go as far as we'd like in some areas, it's a huge step in the right direction. Speaker Gingrich said he wasn't going to let me get to the left of him on tobacco. I guess that means he's prone to do something, and that's good news. I think we can build on this momentum and that the issue is rocking along pretty well...
...primary goal of the tobacco bill is to cut smoking by American teens. Nearly 3,000 youngsters start smoking each day, and tobacco-related disease will kill half of them. But what about the rest of the world? Those new smokers--60,000 a day--could be on their own. Tobacco-state Democratic Senators Ernest Hollings of South Carolina and Wendell Ford of Kentucky have moved to strike language that would constrain exports and cost jobs in farming and manufacturing here...
Some legislators are appalled at the idea of exporting tobacco. California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi says, "How can we possibly say smoking is deadly for our kids but O.K. for foreign children?" Hollings and Ford argue that America has no right to dictate to other countries. Why punish American suppliers, they reason, when most of the $262 billion in world tobacco revenues winds up in the coffers of state-owned monopolies...