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Science's advances have been accompanied by a heightened public awareness of the important role of life-style and environment. At least in the Western world, the combined scientific and government campaign to warn the public of the malign effects of tobacco smoking, for example, has caused millions of people to change long-ingrained habits. An intensive campaign to improve the quality of prenatal and obstetric care--and to get the word out to expectant mothers--has greatly cut infant-mortality rates. Improvements in emergency care, hospital methods and community safety standards have also done their part...
...budget (in July 1995, fully eight months before Dole's nomination), he laid claim to fiscal sanity, an issue virtually owned by the Republicans since budgets were first adopted. From there a series of small-bore but powerfully symbolic pronouncements followed. In August 1995 he urged a crackdown on tobacco advertising directed at kids. Calls for school uniforms, teen curfews, V chips to block violent television shows, and a series of proposals aimed at women voters specifically (including bills designed to increase child-support collections, extend the family-leave act and mandate a longer hospital stay after giving birth) guaranteed...
While the President redefined his party's approach at the presidential level, however, congressional Democrats never enthusiastically rallied behind his values agenda. They supported him on such issues as the ban on tobacco advertising aimed at our children, placing V chips in televisions to help parents control what children watch, and a TV-rating system. But they failed to transform them into the values-charged issues that our polling showed appealed to key swing voters...
...retiree who must face changing circumstances. Unplugged from a regular and generous income, he must cope with a reduced cash flow by giving up his Fifth Avenue apartment to live full time in Bridgehampton. He must also cope with his daughter Charlotte, a public relations executive who dissembles for tobacco companies and is engaged to Jon Riker, Schmidt's former protege at the firm of Wood & King...
AUTO RACING Proposed marketing restrictions could put the brakes on tobacco-fueled motor sports...