Excellence in Home Education starts here. Since 1981, God's World News has been helping children to understand and interpret the world around them. Tenn. Inside the political arena, partisans on both sides body slam their opponents. Bob Dole attacks the Clinton administration's squishiness on drugs. Bill Clinton hits back by moving the spotlight to tobacco and accepting the concept that cigarettes and smokeless tobacco are delivery devices for nicotine and should thus be under the authority of the Food and Drug Administration.
Reporters get bored with the debate and move on to other issues.
Candidate Clinton telling an MTV audience in 1992 that if he had it to do over again, he would inhale when he tried marijuana. Also left behind, if tobacco becomes in essence an illegal drug, are those families whose livelihoods depend on it. Outside the spotlight, they struggle with the complicated economic and moral issues that even a smoky haze cannot hide. Throughout the Cumberland River valley, a gentle, sweet, and musky smell drifts by on the occasional breeze. Wayne Taylor downshifts his Ford truck as he pulls off a road and onto one of his remaining fields of bright, golden tobacco.