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More than 800,000 Americans derive their livelihood from tobacco-related jobs -- almost double the 435,000 that the Surgeon General estimates die each year from tobacco-caused disease. A ban on promotion would cost some of those jobs. Still, it's ironic that, as a society, we spend billions to keep people from breathing asbestos -- the EPA estimates 17 non-occupational asbestos- related deaths a year -- but billions more to promote smoking...
Limiting the industry's right to glamourize smoking raises obvious First Amendment questions. But even if Congress hasn't the power to ban tobacco promotion -- and it well may -- what of private restrictions? Why shouldn't publishers, including Time Inc., decree that they will no longer push tobacco? When is TV Guide owner Rupert Murdoch (a Philip Morris board member) going to announce that since cigarette ads are inappropriate on TV, they're also wrong for TV Guide, which has a huge readership among kids? Is it appropriate that seven pages of a recent issue of Self magazine, with...
...Tobacco is unique. It's the only legal product that's highly addictive and that, when used exactly as intended, causes great harm...
...something" that turns the human system into a four-alarm fire is capsaicin, a chemical concentrated in the veins and seeds of the chile pod. A member of the nightshade family (as are tomatoes, potatoes and tobacco), the chile pepper is believed to have originated in South America. Incas and Mayans prized it for its vibrant flavor and curative powers, prescribing peppers for ailments as diverse as arthritis, epilepsy and the common cold. Pepper seeds carried back to Europe by Christopher Columbus eventually found their way to China, Korea, Thailand and India -- the last of which today leads all other...
...fire department hopes to put out the flames once and for all with some support from the National Guard, the Massachusetts State Police Fire Marshal's office and Federal agents in the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms branch...