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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 32 Political issues |
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| | Political issues: General |
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| | The tobacco industry spent more than $43 million on lobbying in the first half of 1998, |
| | much of it in their successful effort to kill national tobacco legislation, the $516 billion |
| | comprehensive anti-tobacco bill. $7.2 million of the amount went to a single |
| | Washington law firm, Verner, Liipfert, and Hand, where Ann Richards and George |
| | Mitchell worked on the tobacco issue. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 1998, p. A10 |
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| | The respected Washington law firm of Verner Liipfert took in $18 million in fees for |
| | lobbying from 1997 to 1999 from tobacco companies looking to negotiate a |
| | legislative settlement with Congress. Members of the firm include Bob Dole, George |
| | Mitchell, Ann Richards, and Lloyd Bentsen. |
| | Washington Monthly, October 1999, p. 26 |
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| | George W. Bush has indicated that if elected president, he would reverse the Clinton |
| | no-smoking policy in the White House. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, December 28, 1999, p. C11 |
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