Word: tobacco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Jacqueline Autef, whose tobacco shop is around the corner from Monnet's old house, such promises ring hollow. Once the most powerful nation in Europe, France may worry about its eclipse by Japan, the U.S. or Germany. Autef, 53, feels insecure on a more basic level. "I voted for Mitterrand in 1981 because he promised to reduce unemployment," said the tobacconist, who supports an ; invalid husband. "But today 3 million French are out of work. My neighbor committed suicide when he lost his job. Families are shattering." Whether stung by France's 10% jobless rate, by recession in Britain...
Students who took part, anonymously, in the largest study ever to examine undergraduate alcohol and drug use, described their use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and other drugs. They also answered questions about personal health and academic performance...
...remove Sarokin from those cases. Last week they succeeded. In what it termed a "most agonizing" decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals found that Sarokin appeared biased against the cigarette industry. The court cited a February opinion in which Sarokin said that "despite some rising pretenders, the tobacco industry may be the king of concealment and disinformation...
...Tobacco-industry defendants expressed relief that Sarokin was no longer on the case. Said Charles Wall, a lawyer for Philip Morris: "We did not claim that he is not a good judge, but we believed he had prejudged some important issues in the litigation." Sarokin disagreed. Removing himself from another tobacco case last week, the judge delivered a strong rebuke to the court of appeals. "I fear for the independence of the judiciary if a powerful litigant can cause the removal of a judge for speaking the truth based upon the evidence," he wrote. "If the standard established here...