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...Food and Drug Administration has struck a blow for the tobacco-addicted. It will ban almost all over-the-counter stop-smoking aids; they don't work...
...plaintiff has ever won damages in a lawsuit against a tobacco company, but a ruling by a Mississippi judge may provide plaintiffs with their strongest ammunition yet. The judge wrote that cigarettes are "defective and unreasonably dangerous" because they cause illness when used as intended. If his reasoning becomes generally accepted, plaintiffs in smoking cases will no longer have to prove that tobacco companies were negligent but simply that cigarettes led to illness or death...
...springing from the central horror tale at Waco. Investigators put the body count for the April 19 inferno at 80. The Texas Rangers scavenged 200 whole guns after the fire. The Justice and Treasury departments began reviews of the roles played by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. And cult member Stan Sylvia, whose wife and daughters died, brought the first lawsuit against the U.S. government, for $18 million...
...Washington that the progression from shock to anger was most obvious. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen admitted to being "deeply troubled" at conflicting statements on whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms knew Koresh had been tipped off before its initial February raid; ATF head Stephen Higgins promptly expressed a willingness to resign. And during a hearing in the House, Michigan Congressman John Conyers Jr. exploded at Attorney General Janet Reno, calling the government's actions "a profound disgrace to law enforcement" and implying she was trying to "rationalize" the deaths. With emotion, Reno responded, "I feel more strongly about...
...Reno thrust out her jaw and glared. Then, her voice quavering, she replied, "I haven't tried to rationalize the death of children, Congressman. I feel more strongly about it than you will ever know. But I have neither tried to rationalize the death of four ((Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms)) agents, and I will not walk away from a compound where ATF agents had been killed by people who knew they were agents and leave them unsurrounded." Then she added, "Most of all, Congressman, I will not engage in recrimination...