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...restaurants and bars, throughout Maryland. Smokers are also dismayed that the Clinton Administration hopes to finance a large part of health-care reform with a 75 cents-a-pack increase in the U.S. cigarette tax (now 24 cents a pack). More than 16,000 industry supporters, many of them tobacco workers bused in by their companies,marched in Washington last week to protest any such tax hike...
...nothing is more threatening to America's smokers and tobacco industry (annual revenues: $48 billion) than a debate coming soon to Congress. Hearings will begin in the House next week on whether cigarettes should be classed as a drug and thus subjected to tight regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. No one expects cigarettes to be banned; that would create the greatest law-enforcement challenge since Prohibition. It is conceivable, though, that Congress could outlaw cigarette advertising and ban smoking in all public places...
...plan that aren't there," as President Clinton put it in an interview on CBS This Morning. Koziol to the contrary, for example, the plan would have little if any effect on the benefits he gets from GM, and it proposes no direct new taxes except for one on tobacco (though new insurance premiums that some companies and workers would have to pay are often considered a tax by another name). As for fears of declining quality of care, a more cogent criticism would be that the Administration has made the benefits it would guarantee to everybody more generous than...
...said. The plans for the February attack were deficient, however, as the government has admitted. In September, the Treasury Department published a scathing report on the raid that described faulty planning, fouled-up communications and, worst of all, a fatal misjudgment by commanders of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who decided not to call off the attack even after they learned that they had lost the element of surprise. Last week Reno said, "One of the minor tragedies of Waco is we will never know what the right choices were." She added, "The ghost of Waco will...
...Antonio, Texas, the defense rested its case in the trial of 11 Branch Davidians charged with murdering four federal agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms last February. The jury is expected to get the case late this week. Meanwhile, in New York City, lawyers continued their closing arguments in the World Trade Center trial of four defendants linked to the bombing a year ago that killed six people and injured...