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...revenue-enhancement measures" or, in plain English, tax increases. Reagan has ruled out any reduction or delay in the 25%, three-year cut in income tax rates that he bulled through Congress last summer. Thus his aides are floating ideas for raising other taxes: excise (sales) taxes on liquor, tobacco and gasoline, and taxes on some specific types of business transactions...
...taxpayers about $3 billion in the past fiscal year. The reason, as usual, is politics: the White House agreed to continue supporting certain commodities in exchange for needed votes on its tax and budget bills. Complained Democratic Congressman Bob Shamansky of Ohio, after losing a battle to end tobacco protection: "Instead of democracy in action, we had hypocrisy in action...
Another important category of pollutants brought up at the conference was aerosols, tiny particles usually associated with household cleaning and personal care products and with tobacco smoke. Certain particles originally thought to come from outside air, like aluminum, might originate indoors instead...
Sadat enjoyed the comforts and perquisites of his rank, but hardly to excess. Apart from a weakness for fine English suits and imported Dunhill pipe tobacco, his tastes and habits were simple. He usually ate only one light meal each day. A devout Muslim, he never drank wine or liquor. He liked to spend quiet evenings at home watching private movie screenings, usually of American westerns...
There is no shortage of villains in the piece. Big landlords and insurance brokers are the prime employers of arsonists, and even the tobacco industry has its own accidental influence: thanks in part to chemicals added for long burning, cigarettes left on bedding, armchairs and sofas start smoldering fires that kill more than 2,000 Americans each year...