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...happened to Louis Katona III, a Bucyrus, Ohio, real estate salesman and part-time police officer. He got to tell all about it when the National Rifle Association flew him to its annual meeting in Phoenix last spring--how agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the "jackbooted fascists" of N.R.A. lore, had raided his home and seized his machine-gun collection. At the time, he estimated the guns' value at about $300,000 and kept them locked inside a walk-in vault in his basement, expecting them one day to pay for the college educations...
DIED. M0RTON L. LEVIN, 91, epidemiologist; in Riverhead, New York. One of the first medical researchers to link tobacco and lung cancer, Levin tracked patients from 1938 to '50 and concluded in a 1950 Journal of the American Medical Association article that lung cancer was more than twice as likely to strike a smoker as a nonsmoker...
Should cigarettes be under stricter controls? That long-burning issue heated up on two fronts last week. After years of pushing toward regulating nicotine as an addictive drug -- and meeting resistance from Congress and the tobacco lobby -- the Food and Drug Administration passed the issue to the White House. The agency announced that it was urging relatively mild new regulations aimed at curbing smoking among youngsters. Among them: banning cigarette machines and stiffening penalties for vendors who sell tobacco to minors...
...next day the American Medical Association blasted the cigarette industry for "duping" the U.S. public by deliberately hiding the dangers of smoking. The A.M.A. released a detailed review of 8,000 pages of internal documents from Brown & Williamson, the third largest U.S. tobacco company. The memos and reports, going back 30 years, show that company officials privately called nicotine an addictive drug while publicly insisting it was a flavor enhancer, and that the firm withheld research showing that tobacco can cause cancer...
...documents, which were obtained by University of California at San Francisco researchers largely through anonymous sources, have already been publicized over the past year. But doctors hope repetition will arouse the public to demand action, including bans on all cigarette advertising, tobacco exports and industry contributions to scientists and politicians. Any such action seems unlikely in the current antiregulatory political climate. House Speaker Newt Gingrich's comment on the FDA proposals was that the agency had "lost its mind." President Clinton guardedly endorsed stronger controls on smoking by youths, but stressed that he had not yet seen the new report...