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...court to block new FDA rules, scheduled to go take effect on February 28, that would severely limit cigarette advertising aimed at teenagers. Terming the FDA restrictions a violation of the First Amendment and a prime case of federal overreach, lawyers want Judge William Osteen, a onetime tobacco industry lobbyist, to rule against the FDA without a trial. Tobacco representatives argue that the next step is a total ban on cigarette sales. If enacted, the rule would certainly put a crimp in an industry where 90 percent of new smokers are under the age of 18. That's just...
...Hart, a lobbyist on Beacon Hill, is a mother of three, including a sixth-grader at the Agassiz School...
...celebrities. General Motors will not provide 300 cars, free of charge, for the parade, and Ralston Purina will not hay and water the hundreds of horses that usually turn the Mall into an urban Ponderosa for a few days. "They are doing the Caesar's wife Inaugural," said insurance lobbyist Michael Lewan, a Democrat...
...there's any new money [for college aid], all indications are that it will come from changes in the tax code," says Nan F. Nixon, Harvard's lobbyist in Washington for tax and education issues...
...matter. Richard Kluger's Ashes to Ashes, a comprehensive condemnation of the industry, was published. Liggett and Meyers settled a lawsuit--the first time ever for a tobacco company. A former Brown & Williamson executive turned whistle-blower. The life of Victor Crawford, a former tobacco lobbyist, came to an end from cancer of the throat after he used his final years valiantly lecturing about the evils of smoking. Science proved the direct link between smoking and lung cancer. The end result of such events was that smoking increased among children and young adults...