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Same story at the trendy Bar Marmont on Sunset, and at nearby Dublin's. An Irish pub without smoke? Stand on a corner in Los Angeles for two hours, and you've got black lung. But having cleared tobacco smoke from every other public space in California, reformers have entered the last refuge. They'll ban alcohol next, and pretty soon California will be a string of juice bars, from Mexico to Oregon...
...Tobacco Under the Hot Lights A minor sting by Justice is making the Big Five very nervous. Now, a lot of lawyers for Big Tobacco are going back on the clock...
WASHINGTON: The Big Five tobacco companies are a wary cartel: always in competition but still bound together, in charge of the same pot of gold. Now one of them is going under the hot lights, giving them all a new reason to be nervous. Brown & Williamson Tobacco was the "unindicted co-conspirator" in the guilty plea Wednesday of a California biotech firm called DNAP, which was convicted of breeding high-nicotine tobacco plants (illegal under U.S. law) and smuggling seeds out of the country to be farmed in Brazil...
...DNAP, a misdemeanor violation of an obscure "seed export" law. But these are the first criminal charges to emerge from the Justice Department's 3-year-old tobacco investigation. And now they've got somebody's collar. "They're sweating B&W," says TIME Justice Department Correspondent Elaine Shannon. "And that means everybody's sweating." Just like each of the tobacco giants all have "safe", low-nicotine cigarettes in development in case they're needed, each of them is ready with a high-nicotine smoke, Shannon says; they would never let one of them have it to themselves. Except they...
...Tardiest Admission Thirty-three years after the Surgeon General first issued his warning, a cigarette company admitted that smoking causes cancer. As part of a legal settlement, the comparatively small Liggett Group also conceded that tobacco companies have aimed pitches at teenagers--a charge its bigger brethren still deny...