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...third of the nation's 1,800 enclosed shopping malls are expected to forbid smoking by the end of this year. Cleveland's stadium is one of 20 * major-league baseball parks to go smokeless; the American Medical Association has urged the majors to ban smoking in all 28. Tobacco companies are under increasing fire for alleged misconduct and cover-ups. Last month Representative Waxman charged that in 1983 tobacco giant Philip Morris discovered the first strong evidence that nicotine is addictive but suppressed the study. Waxman has called the top brass from Philip Morris and six other cigarette firms...
...everyone suddenly jumping on the antismoking bandwagon? After all, critics have been proclaiming the dangers of smoking for hundreds of years. King James I of England in 1604 branded the habit "loathsome." Even Adolf Hitler was a fanatical opponent of tobacco; signs declaring DEUTSCHE WEIBER RAUCHEN NICHT (German women do not smoke) were posted throughout the Third Reich during World...
...nothing has galvanized today's antismoking activists as much as the / Environmental Protection Agency report released a year ago that classified environmental tobacco smoke as a class-A carcinogen and estimated that 3,000 nonsmokers die each year from lung cancer as a result of other people's smoke. The tobacco industry is currently challenging the findings in court, but the report dealt a serious blow to so-called smokers' rights that's still being felt...
...climate. President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton sent a message that the war on smoking was getting personal when they banned smoking in the White House on Inauguration Day. Congress, meanwhile, has seen an influx of environmentally concerned baby boomers, along with a decline in the traditional power of tobacco-state legislators. Despite continued lavish spending by the tobacco lobby to try to influence Congress, for the first time members of the antismoking Congressional Task Force on Tobacco and Health outnumber pro-tobacco House members, 58 to 42. "The tobacco industry, while still a powerful force, has lost its virtual...
...young, may be creeping up: the percentage of high school seniors who smoke increased from 17.2% in 1992 to 19% in 1993. Antismoking activists are growing more alarmed -- and more aggressive. "I can't think of another product that, faced with the scientific evidence which is associated with tobacco, could remain a legal product on the market and almost completely exempt from regulation," says Scott Ballin, executive director of the Washington-based Coalition on Smoking OR Health...