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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 17 Smokeless Tobacco |
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| | Smokeless Tobacco: U.S. Tobacco Company |
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| | US Tobacco and the Smokeless Tobacco Council contributed $975,000 to national |
| | parties between 1988 and 1992, most in soft money to the Republican National |
| | Committee. |
| | Common Cause magazine, Summer 1993 |
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| | Spokesperson Alan Hilburg of the Smokeless Tobacco Council says that there is no |
| | scientific proof "that smokeless tobacco causes any adverse health effects or human |
| | disease", or that nicotine is addictive. |
| | Common Cause magazine, Summer 1993 |
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| | In the early 1990's, Louis Bantle was the $2 million a year chairman of US Tobacco |
| | Company of Greenwich Conn., makers of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless |
| | tobacco. His company contributed $100,000 to the 1992 Bush re-election campaign |
| | and hosted a $350,000 Bush fund-raiser. At the same time, UST got high-level Bush |
| | administration help in battling foreign governments that banned the import and sale of |
| | snuff. |
| | Common Cause magazine, Summer 1993 |
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| | Bantle and UST, ironically, give generously to the national Alcohol and Drug Abuse |
| | Council and are major backers of a drug treatment center in Baltimore. Louis Bantle |
| | cut the ribbon on Bantle Hall in Baltimore at a ceremony with guest speaker Betty |
| | Ford and former president Gerald Ford. |
| | Common Cause magazine, Summer 1993 |
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| | Seconds after being told that users of oral moist snuff were fifty times more likely to |
| | develop oral cancer than abstainers, US Tobacco's president, Joseph Taddeo |
| | testified under oath to Congress: "Oral tobacco has not been established as a cause |
| | of mouth cancer". |
| | CSPAN, April 14, 1994 |
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