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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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| | Tobacco and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) The American Civil Liberties |
| | Union (ACLU) has been lobbying since 1986 against restrictions on cigarette |
| | advertising on the grounds that it would violate the First Amendment. Since that time, |
| | it has received more than half a million dollars in contributions from Philip Morris, and |
| | more from other tobacco companies. |
| | Newsweek, August 9, 1993 |
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| | The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) has a longstanding financial relationship |
| | with the tobacco industry, stalling federal legislation limiting tobacco advertising and |
| | promotion to children, and lobbying against legislation limiting smoking in restaurants, |
| | workplaces, and other indoor areas. |
| | SCARC, August 25, 1993 |
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| | In Pennsylvania, the legislative director of the state ACLU chapter testified against a |
| | bill prohibiting smoking in cars carrying children. In New Jersey, the ACLU director |
| | reportedly traveled in the same caravan with tobacco industry representatives to radio |
| | stations and press events in support of a smokers' rights bill. |
| | Tobacco Industry Strategies, p. 13 |
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| | "The ACLU's clients have always been the long line of individuals whose basic rights |
| | were threatened by oppressive government action. How did Philip Morris and RJ |
| | Reynolds jump to the front of that line?" |
| | SCARC, August 25, 1993 |
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| | "How could anyone seriously believe that advertising of harmful products is protected |
| | by the First Amendment?" |
| | Washington Monthly, September 1993, p. 11 |
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