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While plainly outraged by the conduct of the cigarette makers, Kluger spreads the blame around. Lawmakers, cozy with tobacco interests, are held responsible for the government's failure to regulate a clearly dangerous product. The antismoking lobby, in its zeal to get its message across, is portrayed as stooping to hasty or manipulative presentation of scientific data. Meanwhile, the American Medical Association comes across as shockingly slow to denounce smoking. To end the present standoff, in which tobacco companies are battling huge lawsuits, Kluger proposes a compromise in which the industry submits to fda regulation of cigarettes in return...
Hardy souls who crave still more detail on the current tobacco wars may want to dip into The Cigarette Papers (University of California Press; 539 pages; $29.95), a new study of the Brown & Williamson documents that were leaked to antismoking activist Stanton Glantz. Next month will also see the publication of Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (Addison-Wesley; 288 pages; $22) by New York Times reporter Philip J. Hilts...
KENNETH STARR Whitewater prober investigating Clinton while serving tobacco firm investigated by Clinton...
They worked elbow to elbow inside the aging San Francisco federal building, agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and U.S. postal inspectors. They crunched and recrunched scraps of data through a massive parallel-processing computer borrowed from the Pentagon, sifting through school lists, driver's-license registries, lists of people who had checked certain books out of libraries in California and the Middle West. "It was just an incredibly complicated jigsaw puzzle," says a former FBI agent who worked on the case...
Lobbying groups such as the Tobacco Institute, headed by media-shy Samuel Chilcote Jr., 58, want most of all to buy silence from the government. And so far, they have. Republican leaders have made it clear there will be no anti-tobacco legislation this year. But the industry also appears to have got some active lobbying. The G.O.P. speaker of the Arizona house has complained that Haley Barbour once called and asked him to allow a vote on pro-tobacco legislation. The speaker refused, but Big Tobacco is still giving...