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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Former FDA head David Kessler went to the White House today to press his recommendation the Administration reject the $368.5 billion settlement between Big Tobacco and the state attorneys general because the deal would limit the government's power to regulate nicotine as an addictive drug. A Congressional commission headed by Kessler and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, which had indicated its serious misgivings about the settlement two weeks ago, presented Al Gore with its recommendations for making the deal work. Especially upsetting to the Koop-Kessler commission is a provision forbidding a nicotine...
JACKSON, Miss: "I'm leaving Washington shortly to bring home some mighty good news," said a very pleased Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore, announcing a $3 billion settlement with the tobacco industry to defray his state's costs in treating smokers. The settlement came just days before Moore was to set to take the cigarette industry to trial in Mississippi. The deal is separate from the $368.5 billion national settlement reached with the industry July 20, in which Moore acted as lead negotiator for several states. In his original lawsuit, filed in 1994, Moore sought $940 million for tax funds...
What we face in the new tobacco agreement, incomplete though it may be, is an instance of the "Stalingrad dilemma," a term coined from that brutal battle in which the armies of Hitler met the armies of Stalin. Any decent person wants both sides to lose...
Their allies, the trial lawyers, care slightly less, shall we say, about social justice than about carving up the hundreds of billions the tobacco companies have just placed before them...
...tobacco executives? These are the folks who commission ads depicting mountain climbers sucking Salems after an exhilarating jaunt up the Matterhorn...