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...Supreme Court decision this week, which clears the way for damage suits against the tobacco industry, will have grave consequences for cigarette manufacturers, Tyler Professor of Law Laurence H. Tribe said in an interview Thursday...
...possible to see what a totally new landscape has been cleared by this," said Tribe, who argued that that the tobacco industry's compliance with labeling regulations did not made it "immune to any other form of state regulation...
Genetic engineering involves adding or subtracting characteristics from an organism by either suppressing the action of a specific gene or by adding a gene from another plant, or even an animal. A few years ago, in an extreme example, scientists spliced a gene from a firefly into a tobacco plant, and the plant glowed in the dark. The kinds of changes allowed under the new policy are much less exotic: vegetables will be exempted from pre-testing only if their nutritional value hasn't been lowered, if they incorporate only new substances -- proteins or sugars, for example -- that are already...
Priced at under $4 each, the patch delivers a steady fix of nicotine, the addictive part of tobacco, without the 4,000-plus other nasty components that make up tar. Long-term studies are lacking, but initial data suggest that the patches can double the success rate for quitters in the short run when coupled with behavioral therapy...
When the Harvard Cooperative Society began in 1882, it occupied only a five-foot tall bookshelf in a tobacco store...