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...brief moments last week, Bob Dole soared. after his self-destructive waffles about tobacco, assault weapons and abortion, Dole found in education reform an issue on which he and Bill Clinton disagree so fundamentally that the President's tactic of "me-tooing" Dole's proposals is simply not an option...
DIED. THOMAS SANDEFUR, 56, Brown & Williamson's ex-chairman who, along with other tobacco chiefs, told Congress in 1994 that he did not believe nicotine was addictive; of aplastic anemia; in Louisville, Kentucky...
What does smoking a cigarette have in common with snorting cocaine? Not a great deal, or so most people like to believe. In fact, for weeks Bob Dole has been playing into the conventional wisdom--and the hands of his supporters in the tobacco industry--by saying on campaign stops across the country that though nicotine may be habit forming, that doesn't necessarily make it addictive. Scientists, however, say otherwise. And last week, in an article published by the journal Nature, a team of Italian researchers provided perhaps the most compelling reason yet to classify nicotine as an addictive...
...most visibly been doing all year: meeting with parents to deplore gratuitous sex and violence on television; pressuring Big Media into accepting a ratings system and a V-chip technology to let parents control what their kids can see on the tube; embracing school uniforms and curfews; plunging into tobacco row with a machete to stop cigarette companies from luring the young with Joe Camel and the Marlboro...
This is exactly why Mr. Clinton finds himself in the right place on the smoking issue. In years past taking on tobacco might have been seen as a classic case of Big Government regulators trying to get their mitts on a legal product. For parents today, however, cigarettes are simply another powerful danger tempting their kids--like drugs, gangs, dirty rap lyrics and steamy soaps on afternoon TV. With Mom and Pop working longer hours--assuming Mom and Pop live under the same roof--it's not hard to see why they might welcome the idea of the government stepping...