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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Nicotine is an addictive drug that needs to be regulated by the FDA. The tobacco industry is doing everything in its power to prevent the FDA from regulating a drug...
Jones crossed over to the G.O.P. when he lost the Democratic nomination for Congress in 1992--and is staying on the horse he rode in on: he opposes tax increases on tobacco, a staple of his district's economy; he's for reforming Medicare and Medicaid but vows to protect senior citizens; and he opposes congressional pay hikes...
...Neal's 1994 retirement. How firm his hold now is--it was a Democratic district for 20 years before Burr arrived--may depend on local distaste for President Clinton's 1993 75-cents-a-pack cigarette-tax proposal. Burr's defense of the embattled tobacco industry is a winner here in R.J. Reynolds' backyard...
With the resignation of Democrat Charlie Rose, the G.O.P. senses a chance to grab another Southern seat, and Caster has found a good issue: tobacco. Opponent Mike McIntyre says he's on the side of tobacco, but Caster counters with the specter of Clinton's threats to tax the industry further...
QUOTE OF NOTE: [On tobacco subsidies] "If we can ask single mothers to get off the public dole after two years...we can ask Philip Morris to get off the public dole...