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...many years, the tobacco industry shared its wealth fairly evenly between Democrats and Republicans. Not anymore. Tobacco has chosen sides in a spectacular way. Without apology, it is now one of the biggest G.O.P. benefactors, and only a blip for the Democrats. The reason, a tobacco lobbyist says, is Bill Clinton. The President tried to tax tobacco to fund his health-care plan, and is backing increased authority by the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco...
...result, tobacco interests have flooded the G.O.P. with campaign funds. The two largest givers of soft money to the Republicans are the two largest tobacco companies, Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco. All told, tobacco companies ponied up a record $4.1 million in 1995, 78% to Republicans, according to Common Cause. No longer able to argue that smoking is not unhealthy, the industry relies on ideology: Republican laissez-faire offers the best hope for its survival...
...agents from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms yesterday continued to search his secluded Montana cabin for evidence tying him to a deadly series of bombings that occurred over a 18-year period, Harvard graduates racked their brains for memories of the quiet math concentrator...
Last week the Food and Drug Administration released affidavits given by Uydess and two other former Philip Morris employees, William Farone and Jerome Rivers, that threaten to push the tobacco industry farther out on a legal limb. All three men directly contradict the testimony of former Philip Morris ceo William Campbell before Representative Henry Waxman's 1994 congressional subcommittee. At those hearings Campbell, along with six other tobacco ceos, swore that he did not believe nicotine was addictive, and that Philip Morris did nothing to manipulate or increase nicotine levels in its products...
...statements read like an upside-down and backward image of Campbell's testimony. Campbell told the Waxman subcommittee that "nicotine levels in tobacco are measured at only two points in our manufacturing process: prior to the tobaccos' being blended, and then 18 months later when those leaves have been manufactured into finished cigarettes." But according to Uydess, "Nicotine levels were routinely targeted and adjusted by Philip Morris." Rivers, who was a shift manager at the Richmond plant where the company made reconstituted tobacco, stated that the nicotine level in the product was measured "approximately once per hour...