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When a Texas surgeon put Dow Corning silicone implants in Uneeda Laitinen's breasts 25 years ago, he assured her they were not just safe but indestructible. "He said when I was dead in my grave, I'd have beautiful breasts," she recalls. But going from a 34B to a 36C seemed to bring on a plethora of problems: severe migraines, memory loss, aching joints and nerves so damaged that Laitinen was unaware that a hot skillet was searing her until she smelled burning flesh. Her cyst-riddled ovaries were removed, and she developed eight stomach tumors. "There...
...industry is not likely to make concessions in a deal that would lose it money. This is not the first time the industry has sat at the negotiating table with those concerned about public health. In the past, the tobacco companies have found ways to overcome restrictions like the Surgeon General's warnings and the ban on TV ads. The public should be cautious about this settlement. Health advocates must remember that the devil is in the details. ELIZABETH FORNER Grand Rapids, Mich...
What right do we have to complain about teenage smoking when we are signing the paycheck for the best salesman the cigarette industry has ever had? As anyone who has ever been a teenager knows, the Surgeon General's message on a pack of cigarettes is a challenge, not a disincentive. It gives the teenager an opportunity to display his machismo without having to consider the consequences until the dim and distant future. BEN HARNEY Spokane, Wash...
...went to the White House today to press his recommendation the Administration reject the $368.5 billion settlement between Big Tobacco and the state attorneys general because the deal would limit the government's power to regulate nicotine as an addictive drug. A Congressional commission headed by Kessler and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, which had indicated its serious misgivings about the settlement two weeks ago, presented Al Gore with its recommendations for making the deal work. Especially upsetting to the Koop-Kessler commission is a provision forbidding a nicotine ban for 12 years and requiring a lengthy court hearing...
...them continue to smoke, and for many reasons. Those of an earlier generation--those few (ahem) still alive--began because Bogart and Bacall did it, and Bette Davis too: because it was cool and widely accepted. But later generations, at least those come of age after the unavoidable 1964 Surgeon General's report, found a different reason: because it was cool and widely reviled. Smoking today fits perfectly into the honored tradition of American individualism, a tradition as endemic as baseball or pickup trucks. We smokers like to think that when that paradigmatic American Huck Finn...