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| | Chapter 31 Tobacco exports, imports and smuggling |
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| | "In one of the most disgraceful examples of private enterprise gone amok, the |
| | cigarette industry is focusing its high-powered marketing attention on the unprotected |
| | citizens of Third World countries... As Surgeon General, I am appalled by this |
| | corporate behavior of American companies, and further, I am shocked by our own |
| | government's support of such behavior." |
| | C. Everett Koop, Godkin Lecture at Harvard, 1989 (The Progressive, May 1991, p. |
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| | A rural development task force headed by former White House chief of staff Erskine |
| | Bowles has recommended to North Carolina state officials that they pressure the U.S. |
| | government to make acceptance of American cigarettes a condition of China's |
| | admission to the World Trade Organization. |
| | Reported in Raleigh, North Carolina, March 9, 2000 |
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| | Asia's tobacco monopolies are mainly government departments that admit the health |
| | evidence, do not promote cigarettes, and cooperate at least in part with government |
| | health measures. In contrast, the transnational tobacco companies now invading Asia |
| | deny the health evidence, aggressively promote their products, and try to prevent |
| | tobacco control measures. Their profits return primarily to stockholders in the North |
| | America and Europe. |
| | 9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 (Judith Mackay) |
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| | In April 1990, Dr. James Mason of the Department of Health and Human Services |
| | called it "unconscionable" for tobacco companies to be "peddling their poison |
| | abroad." A month later, the White House prevented him from testifying on the Hill |
| | about the health consequences of US tobacco exports. |
| | Wall Street Journal, September 27, 1990, p. A13 |
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