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Lyolya was a scruffy little fellow with a ragged beard who talked in conspiratorial whispers, exhaling a fetid odor of garlic, vodka and bad Soviet tobacco. He told Westerners he had been a leader of the Komsomol, the Communist youth group, at a higher-education institute but was expelled from the organization and the school when he spoke out against the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was Jewish and had applied to emigrate, he said, but his parents were influential party members who opposed his departure and blocked his exit visa. He always wore a shabby old U.S. Army fatigue...
Castro's resolve has sparked a nationwide anti-smoking campaign. But the leader may find Cubans, who earn some $100 million a year from tobacco exports, reluctant to stop lighting up. Said one comrade who joined Castro's forces in the 1950s: "I would follow Fidel into battle and die for him, but I'm not giving up smoking cigars...
Speaking at a symposium called, "Tobacco, Smoking and Health Policy," Koop was joined by Thomas Schelling, director of Harvard's Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy, and two other health policy experts...
Koop called smoking the "leading preventable cause of disease and death in this country," and expressed hope that leaders of the tobacco industry could learn to thrive in a business environment "that enhances life and not the kind that invites death...
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense J. Jarrett Clinton justified the sale of tobacco products in military commissaries and exchanges at prices between 20 and 35 percent below those of the private sector, despite studies that estimated as much as a 10 percent reduction in smoking among military personnel if these discounts were eliminated. Clinton said that inexpensive tobacco products are important for morale and retention. Despite the continuing sales, he said the Department of Defense has implemented an "intense campaign" to limit smoking in military life and provide programs for those trying to quit the habit...