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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 32 Political issues |
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| | Political issues: Federal and Congress |
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| | During the 1970s Congress enacted a number of statutes to protect the American |
| | consumer from a variety of potentially dangerous substances while specifically |
| | excluding the regulation of tobacco. In 1970, the Controlled Substances Act was |
| | passed, but excluded tobacco from the definition of "controlled substance." Two years |
| | later, the Consumer Product Safety Act was enacted, but it excluded tobacco and |
| | tobacco products from the definition of "consumer products." Likewise, the Toxic |
| | Substances Act passed in 1976 excluded tobacco from its definition of a "chemical |
| | substance." Also in that year, the Federal Hazardous Substances Labeling Act was |
| | specifically amended to exclude tobacco and tobacco products from the definition of |
| | "hazardous substances." |
| | JAMA, April 24, 1996, p. 1259 |
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| | "In the last 30 years, we've had 23 Surgeon General's reports and more than 60,000 |
| | scientific studies linking tobacco use with death and disease." |
| | Scott Ballin, Coalition on Smoking or Health, "30-year Report Card for the Federal |
| | Government on Tobacco Control." |
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| | "The failure of the federal government to act quickly and decisively on tobacco 30 |
| | years ago has perpetuated one of the cruelest epidemics in US history. 30 years later |
| | we find perhaps the most lethal and addictive products in our society still |
| | manufactured, advertised and distributed virtually without regulation or adequate |
| | restrictions." |
| | Charles Le Maistre MD, member of the US Surgeon General's Advisory Committee |
| | for the 1964 report and president, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston |
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| | "This is the greatest human disaster of our times, and future generations will find it |
| | simply unbelievable that our governments failed to respond, knowing that they could |
| | have prevented millions of deaths." |
| | Public health official quoted in Social Science and Medicine 38:113, 1993 |
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