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...vitamin A -- that are known as antioxidants. These nutrients appear to be able to defuse the volatile toxic molecules, known as oxygen-free radicals, that are a byproduct of normal metabolism in cells. These molecules are also created in the body by exposure to sunlight, X rays, ozone, tobacco smoke, car exhaust and other environmental pollutants...
...century fiction, is saved from a life of litigation when she drops out of law school perilously close to the bar exam. Honor almost stained is surefire, and in successive Grisham melodramas, we may expect heroines rescued at the last moment from careers as Congresswomen, TV weather babblers and Tobacco Institute scientists...
Josiah S. Murray III, vice-president and general counsel of the Liggett Group tobacco company, said that Liggett did not offer Tribe any position but would not speak for the other cigarette companies involved. The tobacco firms Phillip Morris and Lorillord could not be reached for comment...
Tribe--who is arguing the Cipollone case pro bono, or without pay--based his argument on two pieces of congressional legislation in 1965 and 1969 which place restrictions on tobacco companies...
Tribe said he disagrees with the tobacco industry's claim that the legislation provides immunity to the companies if they issue the specific Surgeon General's warnings...