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...officers wear uniforms. Then the 6-ft. 1-in., 210-lb. doctor, whose taste for red meat and martinis keeps him from losing his paunch, pronounced the U.S. a country of fatsoes who would have to give up cholesterol in favor of fiber. When Koop found out that the tobacco companies had fought hardest over the years against the Government's calling nicotine addictive, he stated high up in his Surgeon General's report that nicotine is addictive. "They absolutely hated it," he gloats. He said the companies' claims that science cannot say with certainty that tobacco causes cancer were...
...vodka sippers who like to think they can discern the differences among brands, the ad slogan for Smirnoff might be an attractive come-on: "So superior you can taste it." But the $10 million campaign has not gone down so smoothly with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Last week the agency said the slogan does not conform to rules that prohibit distillers from claiming special qualities for spirits they sell as vodka. The agency defines vodka as "without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color...
While all children's publishers refuse liquor and tobacco advertising, some are more discriminating than others. Children's Television Workshop, publisher of Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact and KidCity, will not accept ads for candy, , medications or violent games and toys. On the other hand, Alf and Mickey Mouse, which are published by New York City-based Welsh Publishing, are little more than promotions surrounded by ads for sugarcoated breakfast cereals and video games. "We're an entertainment company," explains company president Donald Welsh...
...imports offered a solution. Stephen Higgins, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, had been alarmed by the increase in foreign imports of semiautomatics: from only 4,000 in 1986, requests jumped to 40,000 in 1987, to 44,000 in 1988. In just the first three months of this year, there were 113,732 requests from foreign importers to bring the weapons into the U.S. Two weeks ago, Higgins supplied William Bennett, the Administration's designated director of national drug policy, with the startling statistics...
Others viewed the findings with caution, noting that a cause-and-effect relationship between passive smoking and cervical cancer remains to be shown. Still, declared Lawrence Garfinkel, an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society, "cervical cancer should probably be added to the list of tobacco- induced cancers...