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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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| | In the 1996 campaign cycle the Republicans received nearly $7.1 million in tobacco |
| | money, more than four times the $1.6 million given to the Democrats. |
| | New York Times, April 22, 1997, p. A14 |
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| | "Soft money" donations to the political parties tripled in 1996 from 1992 totals. The |
| | two leading soft money contributors to the Republicans in the 1996 election cycle |
| | were Philip Morris, $2.52 million, and RJR Nabisco, $1.2 million. |
| | Associated Press, February 17, 1997 |
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| | Republicans in the 1996 Congress accepted $1,752,000 from tobacco PAC's |
| | (Political Action Committees), while Democrats accepted $495,000. Philip Morris |
| | spent $11.3 million in just the first six months of 1996 to lobby the federal government. |
| | ANR Update, Winter 1996 |
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| | In the 1995-96 election cycle, soft money (unrestricted) political party donations |
| | totaled $262 million, triple the amount that was raised four years earlier. The leading |
| | contributor of all corporations and groups was Philip Morris with $4.2 million in soft |
| | money, 79% of the total donated to the Republican party and 21% to the Democrats. |
| | Center for Responsive Politics data reported by the New York Times, November |
| | 25, 1997 |
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| | Philip Morris doled out more than $2 million to sponsor events at the 1996 Republican |
| | presidential convention, and at least $100,000 to the Democratic convention. |
| | INFACT, Update Fall/Winter 1996-97 |
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