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Confessions of a Tobacco Fiend
Leonard, John | April 25, 1994 issue

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The article presents information on a bill to ban smoking in the U.S. A bill to ban smoking anywhere in the United States stalled Congress, Labor Secretary Robert Reich and his band of merry trolls at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration propose by ukase to purge the workplace of every last filthy weed, except in New Jersey This, on top of a House subcommittee proposal to sextuple the federal tax on a pack of coffin nails, from 24 cents to $1.49, in order to bankroll a health care system overhaul, if there is one, by socking the poor and sinful.

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TOBACCO; BILLS, Legislative; SMOKING; TAXATION; MEDICAL care; UNITED States
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