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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 32 Political issues |
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| | Political issues: State and local governments |
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| | The Coalition for a Healthy New Jersey recommended a tobacco and alcohol tax |
| | increase to fund health care for people without insurance. The state Smoker's Rights |
| | coalition then charged that the proposal was a move by wealthy doctors to extract |
| | more money from working people. |
| | American Medical News, October 19, 1992 |
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| | In 1993, only 35% of bills introduced in state legislatures regarding nonsmokers' rights |
| | and youth access laws were passed. However, 88% of the local city and county |
| | anti-tobacco ordinances passed. There is currently an all out tobacco industry effort to |
| | preempt local ordinances by state legislation. Tobacco control legislation at the state |
| | level usually fails because of the industry's "clout" with state legislatures and |
| | unbeatable financial resources. However, local community efforts and local |
| | antismoking ordinances have been very successful. |
| | ANR Update, Spring 1994, p. 8 |
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| | The tobacco industry uses its vast wealth and resources at the state level to support |
| | watered-down legislation and laws that preempt local antismoking laws. Laws in 19 |
| | states are tobacco industry backed and have preemptive clauses that bar more strict |
| | local ordinances. About half were adopted in 1993. Another industry approach is to |
| | support laws that protect smokers' rights in the job market. Since 1990, 27 states and |
| | D.C. have passed laws protecting smokers' civil rights on the job. |
| | American Medical News, April 25, 1994, p. 31 |
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| | Weak, preemptive legislation supported by the tobacco industry was introduced in at |
| | least 30 states in 1995. The majority of it was defeated or not addressed. However, |
| | the industry was successful in enacting their preemptive, weak legislation in the states |
| | of Maine, North Carolina, and Nevada. |
| | News from the Coalition on Smoking or Health, January 1996 |
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