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...fact, when things look easy, he almost seems to look for ways to make them harder, move to where he's more comfortable. Instead of spending his summer telling voters why he wants to be President, he lit bonfires over abortion, tobacco, assault weapons, barked at American icons like Katie Couric and Dr. C. Everett Koop, and advocated reopening Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House one day after a bomb went off in Atlanta. He has stuck with a vow of silence to keep from getting in trouble, uncharacteristically refusing to answer reporters' campaign-trail questions...
...many humans unable to kick the cigarette habit, it seems superfluous that Italian researchers have tried to duplicate this condition in rats [HEALTH, July 29]. Millions of lives could have been saved if we had heeded the observations of thoracic surgeons instead of relying on the effect of tobacco smoke on other species. BINA ROBINSON, Director Citizens for Planetary Health Swain, New York...
AWARDED. To GRADY CARTER, 66, ex-smoker and survivor of lung cancer; a landmark $750,000 in a liability suit against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.; in Jacksonville, Florida. Said Carter, a smoker for 44 years: "Somebody needed to take these people...
...surprised you forgot a major aspect of Bob Dole's position on tobacco, gun control and other issues [NATION, July 15]: once he makes up his mind, he seems to be full of indecision. JOSEPH B. MIRSKY West Palm Beach, Florida...
...British researchers have concluded that nearly two-thirds of SUDDEN-INFANT-DEATH SYNDROME cases are linked to tobacco smoke. Even if a baby is merely in a room where smoking has occurred, its risk of dying from SIDS can increase...