Word: tobaccoed
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...thought of that line while watching the eight megabankers who showed up for Wednesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing. There was good theater in the spectacle of these potentates getting a congressional word-whipping as if they were the chastised bosses of the tobacco industry or a poisoned-peanut-butter factory. Real old-timers who tuned in to the charade might have gone dewy-eyed in reminiscence of Depression days. That's when bandits like Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were outlaw heroes, and the big villains were the bankers, who foreclosed on homes and farms, sent widows...
...endure a First Amendment challenge. "In free-speech areas, government management of speech, even if it's commercial speech, should always be the last resort," says Billy Tauzin, a former Republican Congressman from Louisiana who now runs Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the industry's trade association. Banning tobacco ads is one thing - cigarettes can kill you. But these are prescription drugs we're talking about. They at least have the potential to save you, right? (See the top 10 video moments of campaign...
...country, particularly in the issuance of halal stickers for food and beverage products. The Council has the sole authority to issue halal certificates - a stamp that can make or break a product in this 85% Muslim market. And while some praised the group for taking on the tobacco lobby in its antismoking efforts, the clerics fell short of banning the habit outright - not surprising in a country where cigarette companies employ tens of millions of people and are among the biggest sources of tax revenues for the government. (Read "In the Mecca of Celebrity Yoga...
...Drew fire in the late 1990s for the work he and his law firm undertook on behalf of the tobacco lobby...
Thirdhand smoke n.--The toxic residue from tobacco smoke that remains after a cigarette is extinguished...