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...tobacco companies are predators, says American Medical Association President Lonnie Bristow, and smokers are the lambs. "It's time to end the silence of the lambs," Bristow said in describing a new report charging that for 30 years, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. hidevidence that nicotine was addictive. This week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is devoted to the report, a review of almost 10,000 pages of documents from the company. The JAMA report charges that lawyers for the firm routinely labeled internal research as "privileged" to avoid having to reveal the information...
Smoking is not a right. If the founders of this nation had guaranteed an absolute right to smoke, they would have meant it as the same shameless sop to tobacco producers that similar proposals represent today. If people want to make the libertarian argument that consuming cigarettes wherever, whenever and however they please is a form of self-expression essential to their personhood, then it's time for them to get a new personhood. Anyone so addicted to nicotine that he or she can't stand to do without for the length of time it takes them to walk...
...establishments. One could argue that confining smokers to overpriced Square hangouts like mine means effectively limiting the practice to a wealthy elite, but I would respond that those who can afford regular two dollar donations to Phillip Morris et al. should not be crying poverty. And as long as tobacco conglomorates continue shamelessly to target they young, the working class, minorities and women, smoking will remain an equal-opportunity vice...
Meanwhile the FBI, Postal Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have beefed up their 150-member, San Francisco-based, Unabomber task force. In Washington and New York City, experts have examined the manuscripts and letters for clues -- a giveaway mistake like a fingerprint, the indentation of a phone number on a package -- that would provide the identity and whereabouts of the elusive killer. Nothing so far, though, has changed their profile of Unabomber as a single white male, probably in his early 40s, with at least a high school education and some experience, even if indirect, with higher...
...several books and in countless luncheon conversations at his institute, was to reflect on the large questions of human evolution and people's roles as "co-authors" with nature in their destiny--such as, for instance, his own. "I could have studied the immunological properties of, say, the tobacco mosaic virus,'' he once reflected, "published my findings, and they would have been of some interest. But the fact that I chose to work on the polio virus, which brought control of a dreaded disease, made all the difference.'' All the difference for him. And for hundreds of thousands of others...