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...National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), asserted that we have--"not a drug problem--we're dealing with a problem based upon ignorance, denial, hypocrisy, and special-interest greed." He recommended comprehensive drug law reform, including the "repeal of all exemptions from product liability laws for alcohol and tobacco," and having an assigned risk for the liabilities they cause. He also suggested a repeal of all excise taxes dealing with drugs and alcohol, saying "Sin taxes are the erasure of the separation between church and state...They create an intrinsic conflict of interest." If a taxation policy were...
...origins of the confrontation lay in an economic condition that has steadily worsened. Battered by 9.2% inflation, 8.9% unemployment and a trade deficit that reached a record $14 billion in 1982, the government decreed a tough belt-tightening package that included higher prices for tobacco and alcohol, and an obligatory taxpayer loan to the government (amounting to 10% of taxes paid in 1982). That was bad enough, but not nearly as controversial as the new restrictions on foreign travel, designed to reduce the outflow of currency...
...other action, the Corporation and the advisory committee were said to disagree on what Harvard policy should be on investing in the Philip Morris Co., which had come under heavy criticism by the ACSR for its extensive production of tobacco related products...
Calkins said the tobacco issue is too complicated for any immediate decisions on the ACSR's informal recommendation that Harvard divest its $20 million worth of stock in the company, adding the Corporation would take the issue up this summer
More and more Caribbean nations are tearing up irreplaceable rain forests to plant such export crops as bananas, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee and cacao. On the sea, tankers, carrying oil from Venezuela and more distant shores, crisscross the Caribbean; as much as half of the U.S.'s imported oil comes through these crowded sea arteries, many of them leading through dangerous, narrow straits...