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Johnson said Harvard Police have also been in close cooperation with the FBI, Treasury Department Security, the Department of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco, and state and local police. "It's just as complicated as the World Series," said Morse...
...Tobacco Institute attacked the report, saying it was "purely political." But Continental Airlines used the federal report to launch its own no-smoking program, announcing that smokers who agree to keep their pack in their pocket would qualify for a 10% discount on their next flight. The 30- day experimental program was to begin...
Even as she showered her sons with the proceeds from her $10 million tobacco fortune, Margaret Hitchcock Benson lived in fear of them. There were constant fights and drugs and a nightmarish unhappiness that led her to believe that one or another of them was stealing her funds and wanted her dead...
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is an outspoken enemy of tobacco consumption, advocating a "smoke-free society by the year 2000" as a major U.S. health goal. It was no surprise, then, that Koop planned to testify before a House subcommittee last week in support of legislation that would ban all advertising for tobacco products. But the day before he was to appear, the Washington Post reported that Donald Regan, the President's chief of staff, had barred Koop from testifying. The White House defended the action by saying that his presence on a panel that was to include such...
That rationale did not impress California Democrat Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. He charged that the Administration was actually opposed to the legislation, since it would hurt businesses that benefit from the tobacco industry's annual expenditures of $2 billion on advertising and promotion. Koop has now offered to appear in two weeks, if other Administration officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department also come along to offer their views on the proposed bill...