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Bill Clinton enjoys wrapping his lips around an unlit cigar. A top source at a local tobacconist's claims the President "smokes" Hoyo De Monterre Excalibur 1s ... The FDA's David Kessler admits to collegiate pipe smoking ... Anti- tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man ... Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton's Inauguration, he's rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford...
...more than six hours, the top executives of the nation's seven largest tobacco companies underwent a hostile televised grilling before California Congressman Henry Waxman's House health subcommittee. The executives denied that cigarettes are addictive or that their companies manipulate nicotine content to keep smokers hooked. Cigarettes are no more addictive than coffee, tea or Twinkies, allowed one executive. "The difference between cigarettes and Twinkies," responded Waxman sharply, "is death...
...House subcommittee headed by California Democrat Henry Waxman will vote next week on the Smoke-Free Environment Act, perhaps the most sweeping antismoking legislation Congress has ever seriously considered. If the bill becomes law, buildings entered by 10 or more people each day -- including bars, restaurants and almost every structure that isn't someone's home -- will have to become smoke-free zones or face fines of up to $5,000 a day. Another House subcommittee has proposed raising the cigarette tax a whopping $1.25 a pack, largely to help finance health-care reform. Congress last month passed, and President...
...this year. Cleveland's stadium is one of 20 * major-league baseball parks to go smokeless; the American Medical Association has urged the majors to ban smoking in all 28. Tobacco companies are under increasing fire for alleged misconduct and cover-ups. Last month Representative Waxman charged that in 1983 tobacco giant Philip Morris discovered the first strong evidence that nicotine is addictive but suppressed the study. Waxman has called the top brass from Philip Morris and six other cigarette firms to testify before his subcommittee about their practices in hearings this week that promise to attract widespread attention. Attorney...
...campaign to snuff out cigarettes continued to heat up as California Congressman Henry Waxman released a 1983 study conducted by a Philip Morris researcher indicating that nicotine is addictive to rats; the Congressman charged that the firm tried to suppress the report. Philip Morris denied the allegation...