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...subject of this woman's ire is a smoking camel named Cool Joe, the cartoon character that has been the centerpiece of a catchy ad campaign by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company...
...leading cause of preventable death in America, and a major contributor to our competitively crippling health care costs, is smoking. The tobacco companies claim they don't want kids to start smoking, that they spend $3 billion a year advertising in the U.S. merely to get people to switch brands. Fine. Let's give them antitrust exemption to agree among themselves: no more advertising or promotion of any kind. Market shares would be frozen where they are, and the companies would have an extra $3 billion a year in profits. How can they complain about that? Smoking should obviously...
...federal agencies from metropolitan Washington to his home state. Among the departments of government that have offered up various limbs and organs for sacrifice are the FBI division of fingerprinting, the CIA and the Treasury Department's Bureau of the Public Debt, Internal Revenue Service and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Even the Coast Guard has moved its national computer operation to Byrd's landlocked state...
...week's report, 26% of those wearing the device actually succeeded in abstaining for six months, as opposed to 12% of those using a placebo patch. Still, for smokers the choice seems clear: a 1 in 4 chance of quitting successfully, or the same odds of dying of a tobacco-related disease if they...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. vehemently denies the allegations. "We can track 98% of Camel sales, and they're not going to youngsters," says David Fishel, a company spokesman. "It's simply not in our best interest for young people to smoke, because that opens the door for the government to interfere with our product...