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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 32 Political issues |
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| | Political issues: Federal and Congress |
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| | Between 1991 and 1994, 62 antitobacco bills were introduced in Congress, most |
| | dealing with tougher smoking regulation. Only three minor bills became law. |
| | NBC News, March 9, 1994 |
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| | Congress has failed to pass more than 1000 tobacco control bills proposed since |
| | 1964, and has accepted $9.3 million in tobacco industry campaign contributions in the |
| | past three elections. |
| | Washington Post, January 12, 1994 |
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| | In the 1987-88 Congress, 145 anti-tobacco measures were introduced and 144 were |
| | defeated, the successful one the ban smoking on airline flights of two hours or less. In |
| | the 1991-92 Congress, a minor bill to eliminate a federal subsidy for overseas |
| | tobacco advertising was approved, the only anti-tobacco bill approved out of 29 |
| | considered. |
| | Smokescreen, p. 177 |
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| | 174 pieces of federal public health legislation related to tobacco were introduced in |
| | Congress in the late 1980's and early 1990's; only two passed. |
| | 1998 INFACT letter |
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| | Speaking of the pervasive influence of the tobacco industry on Congress, Walker |
| | Merryman of the Tobacco Institute said: "Our opponents cannot even get the |
| | (anti-tobacco) legislation out of subcommittee." |
| | Boston Globe, September 24, 1989, p. 1 |
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