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Kentucky company sets noAssociated
Press rounding counties was sold at auctions in OwensOWENSBORO,
Ky.?Kentucky officials offered ^0T04.1
-IV i: i. i o Scotrs plant, which opened this year, covers
at least $20 million m incentives to lure Scott Pa- , * ' Ab tF800 / ,' d to
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per Co. and its new multimillion dollar mdustn- , ,, m. , , ,,
a. ^ nw pin- local farmers. They once grew tobacco on theprop
ai uiaiit tu uic otaic. xnw uwi&ivu nv?. * .
ployee training, grants and bans before c^pa- a"?Wea ?n'y S?ymWS'""" """
ny officials. Hie president of the Burley Tobacco Growers
Scott accepted eagerly, building its high-tech ~ J .
i * jti. u , f, Cooperative, the group representing farmers in
paper plant amid the soybean, corn and tobacco ,ir _\,r . v 6, f T j. J?. ,,,.
fields of western Kentucky, lie company hired We8t Y^3' ^,ntuc^' Indiana, Ohio mid Misnon
, . soun, lives less than three miles from the Scott
230 workers, paying them high salaries. 1
it even piped its wastewater miles 'Tobacco allows probably half our agricultural
erZTuSZirimZ^wZe : **t0 remaln onthefarm.lt pays our mortgag
Then Scott committed the ultimate Our vehicles and puts Our kids through SChOC
sacrilege in Kentucky: It banned smok- wanf f0 see anybody's rights crushed. That'
ing, not just inside its buildings but
anywhere on the two-square-miles of they've done* If a person is a smoker and w
property. Scott, they're walking all over them.
In the midst of tobacco country,
the company has established one of Rod Kuegel, president, Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperati
the toughest no-smoking policies in
the nation. Any infraction will result , . ? c. o v
,. . j. . , plant. He is fuming over Scottrs policy.
m immediate dismissal. u n ?_v. u l ir : 14.
Troi ,, , , , ,, . tobacco allows probably half our agricultur
If Scott employees want to light up on their , ... . Y, c 7?
i f al commumty to remam on the farm. It pays ou]
luncn nour, mey musi wtiiA. tu tue uaiikinK iub, , , ,
then follow the sapling-lined driveway out to U.s! mortgagee humour vehicles and puts our m
60 and park on the shoulder. Or they can drive hrough.f5??1' -5^ ^ Si" v ul w,"
to a local diner anybodys rights crushed Tnars what theyVi
Tf you're a smoker, and we have people Who done; a P? " ? a sm?ker a?nd works at Scotl
smoke, they leave the plant for their lunch break e?!.rew1 nf, . ?V6L- T1', , ,
j j 4.1 -a. -i i i is Kuegel said he s particularly upset about th
and drive at least a mile and a half off the prop- . JO i.Iu 1 nwi t
erty," plant manager Mike Lerch said. "We work 'ha ^ &?? >?<* ? ?1
12-hour shifts, so basically, you abstain for 12 tobacco T hf? TIT F
hourg? ' J J for state government and fund the types of ir
The irony is hard to miss. Daviess County, centives awarded to the paper company
where the plant is located, has more than 800 ac- . ^ tote some legjdatron, make th?
live tobacco faimere who last year produced 6.8 their state funding Kuegel smd"It
, e. , ,, *, , , i . just another effort to take a politically correct p<
million pounds of tobacco, the state s Agriculture J... ? _ r r
tv .r . A4 e*i oo sition. How would it hurt for an employee to g
Department says. At an average price of $1.83 , , , ,, r J 6
per pound, the tobacco raised Uiere was worth outede and smoke acigaretter
nearly $12.5 million. But ^ officials m toeir poh<y at the plan
which isn't a comDanvwide rule, is merely an ei
About $20 million more in tobacco from am- tenaionof ^ already enforced u
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smoking zone Nissan off
side the nation's hospitals, shopping malls and Staff Reports
federal buildings. ~~ ~
"If s inconvenient to be a smoker and work in TORRENCE, Calif. Nissan has a
a lot of places," company spokesman Rob Prague ti?n 8^ f?r more ^an }
said in Pittsburgh. T don't think Scott is any dif- students earning a degree in 1995.
ferent than a number of companies." Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp.
If s difficult to say how many companies en- san Motor Corporation USA are o
force such tough no-smoking rules, although even special to recent college graduates th
public health advocates say Scotfs policy is rare. it easier to obtain a new JNissan car
In a recent survey of large Kentucky manu- Students who have earned a foi
facturers by the American Cancer Society, 16 re- graduate degree at an accredited
cnmmunL ported bans on cigarette smoking both lege or university, or who are receiv
indoors and outdoors. It said 111 com- istered nursing degree in 1995, anc
[?S, buys panies reported allowing smoking on- to demonstrate proof of current or fi
i| | (font y outdoors, and 141 allowed it in des- ployment are eligible to apply.
ignated areas indoors. But an over- Nissan's 1995 College Gradual
SWhat whelming majority of the companies ing Program features a choice of prj
orksat surveyed 82 percent, didnt respond lease plans and offers qualified grr
t oepo. low annual percentage rate, specii
Scotts tough smoking policy r
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"There are a lot of corporations
that have instituted programs to get their em
ployees to stop smoking," said Ruth CaslofT of the I . |1171 11
r American Lung Association in New York. But she V^l " * lVkJV JJ
s added: "In today's world, nine out of 10 have a
t smoking area." Associated Press te
8 ,.|r Tve "ever hef^ of h? ? a Pf** TAIPEI, Taiwan?More than
;, hketha> aped JoannSchellenbach spokes- 20,000 people marched in
woman for the American Cancer Society m New r0 , . , it
e York. "Mostly, I think, they're limiting smoking three cities Sunday to de- R
a to restricted areas, but more and more rompanies nop*Chinas missile tests
y are going smoke free." and to sup|?it the opposition se
i- Charlie Finch of the Raleigh, N.C.-based To- campaign for independence id
bacco Growers Information Committee said most trom the mainland. it<
n companies usually tell workers to step outside to *n Taipei, about 10,000
s light up. demonstrators chanted "We Ti
> "What we would like to see in companies that are Taiwanese, We are not
;o don't want to go to the expense of having a large Chinese" during the three- t\
smoking area is to be fair so that workers have hour march. Organizers said w
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t- out the front gate? I think that is a little ridicu- ed similar demonstrations in Y
l- lous." Taichung, in central Taiwan, tl
and Tainan, in the south. P
The demonstrators were
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sts into seas north of Tai- land in 1949 and officially
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j campaign for international Umted States in June to atcognition.
China considers tend a reunion at his alma
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Taiwan's ruling Nation- denounced Lee for leadlists
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