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WASHINGTON: Prices of tobacco shares tumbled Friday as investors reacted to a report of new scientific evidence linking cigarettes to lung cancer. The study, published in the journal Science strongly linked cigarettes to lung cancer and may force the tobacco industry to rethink its argument that no clear connection has been established between smoking and the disease. The research found a tobacco carcinogen called BPDE bonds to three molecular sites on a gene crucial to the development of cancer. The gene, known as P53, monitors DNA copying during cell division and destroys cells with defective copies of genetic material. When...
...film version, directed by James Foley (At Close Range), Gene Hackman plays Sam as a scrawny, withered rooster, with tobacco stains on his teeth and hatred of blacks and Jews in his heart. He has an alcoholic daughter (a skeletal Faye Dunaway) and a grandson, Adam (chipper Chris O'Donnell), determined to save Sam from state-sanctioned murder. This makes for high, disjointed drama--a shotgun marriage of Method theatrics and TV-movie heart tugging...
What fascinates me about Graffix is that while (by my best guess) it stays in business by selling its bongs to pot smokers, it is able to skirt drug paraphernalia laws by maintaining that the glass tubes are tobacco delivery systems. Caught in a vice between the pressures of the market and those of the law, Graffix faces some very sticky questions: How should it respond to the fact that it helps customers get high? Should it push for legalization? Might political activism provoke a backlash that drives it out of business...
...what people do in their homes is their business. When I ask if the company is endorsing a presidential candidate, he says Graffix has no political agenda. On the other hand, he clarifies, the election is "something we're monitoring." When he asserts that Graffix doesn't "recommend" smoking tobacco, I press him on the point, inquiring why, then, it makes the pipes at all. This sends him into a mumbling frenzy. Eventually he offers that "They make pretty nice flower pots." Besides, he argues, Graffix doesn't even make that many; most of the ones you see are knock...
...TOBACCO. You can be foolish sometimes, which is exactly what you should say. Admit your error--and don't worry--you'll still carry North Carolina. Say that of course you don't want people to smoke...