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Article: Clinton proposal targets teen smoking
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- February 5, 2000
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WASHINGTON - President Clinton opened an election year fight
Friday over guns and cigarettes, proposing to fine the tobacco
industry $3,000 for each teen smoker and crack down on firearm
dealers whose weapons wind up in criminals' hands.
The double-barreled approach isn't likely to go far in Congress,
which shelved administration measures last year for a 55-cent-a-
pack tax on cigarettes and restrictions on gun show sales. But at a
minimum, it will give Democrats campaign issues for their drive to
win control of Congress and keep the White House.
Two days before his wife, Hillary, formally announces her Senate
candidacy, the president went to Capitol Hill to give Democrats a
pep talk.
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