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That letter, signed "Fedbuster" and mailed weeks ago to California public officials, was only the most spectacular of dozens of leads traded after the fires' first week by 30 law-enforcement representatives at the Los Angeles office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ( ATF). Ablott's team from the Los Angeles County sheriff's arson detail was there, as were police from other afflicted counties. So were FBI agents, whose Washington labs have the capacity to analyze the letter for everything from handwriting style to the DNA of the saliva used to seal the envelope...
...employee at the Leavitt & Peirce tobacco shop also said requests for "Phillie Blunts" were common...
Next time you see a high school student smoking a cigar, look again, because it may be more than just fine tobacco he's enjoying, according to the November newsletter of the Substance Abuse Task Force of Cambridge...
...blunting, the smoker splits open a cigar, usually a "Phillie Blunt" brand cigar, and replaces some of the tobacco with marijuana. According to the Governor's Alliance Against Drugs, the trend is getting more and more youths hooked on both nicotine and marijuana...
Whatever the scientific conclusions, Bill Wordham, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute trade group, contends that the court cases are an invasion of privacy: "We have to ask ourselves where this would stop. Is a parent who habitually takes a child to MacDonald's or otherwise feeds that child unhealthy food any less deserving of custody? What about a parent who allows his child to watch long hours of television?" Some nonindustry observers agree, conjuring up visions of government antismoking patrols. Says Thomas Harvey Holt, a Visiting Fellow at the Capital Research Center in Washington: "Smokers soon may find social...