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...Given the twin burdens he bore of a dismally unpopular incumbent Republican President and an already staggering economy that fell off a cliff in October, it is possible that McCain never had a chance. For all his cred as a maverick, McCain built that reputation on issues like tobacco, campaign finance, pork-barrel spending, immigration and torture, all of which were peripheral to the general-election debate. Meanwhile, on problems that worried voters most - the economy, health care, jobs - neither McCain's record in the past nor his proposals for the future were distinguishable from the standard Republican fare promoted...
...they've been light and funny, but they've made the point that Elizabeth Dole has not been an effective Senator." Though freshman rarely achieve much, Dole has left a fairly shallow impression as a legislator, moving only a handful of notable bills, including one to do away with tobacco quotas...
...predicting a billion tobacco related deaths this century, unless we do something about it,” said Connolly, who said that he quit smoking after working in a hospital and seeing the effects that tobacco had on patients with lung disease. “We have to look at the tobacco product itself, which is currently exempt from every major health and safety regulation...
Despite litigation, legislation, and public health campaigns over the past decade, tobacco use among young people has actually increased in recent years...
Smoking among high school students increased to 23 percent in 2005 from 21.9 percent in 2003, and use of smokeless tobacco rose to 13.6 percent in 2005 from 11 percent in 2003, according to the article published in Health Affairs...