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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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| | "Preemption of local regulatory authority is the number one goal of the tobacco |
| | industry nationwide." |
| | Victor Crawford, former Tobacco Institute lobbyist, September 1995 |
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| | "In tobacco control, preemption has emerged as a major strategy of the tobacco |
| | industry to undermine, overturn, and prohibit future efforts to adopt local tobacco |
| | control policies... "The tobacco industry exercises strong influence over the U.S. |
| | Congress and state legislatures, but has far less sway at the local level. Federal laws |
| | currently preempt certain actions by states regarding cigarette advertising. The |
| | industry has sponsored bills that would preempt local action in every state in the U.S." |
| | Stop the Sale, Prevent the Addiction, Centers for Disease Control, 1995 |
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| | Tobacco industry-backed laws that pre-empt local regulations have passed in 27 |
| | states and are on the legislative agenda in nine others. |
| | New York Times, March 15, 1996, p. A9 |
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| | The tobacco industry commonly pushes a state pre-emption bill, "often spun as being |
| | anti-tobacco, that replaces tough local laws with weak statewide measures. Such laws |
| | have been enacted 29 states." |
| | Business Week, November 10, 1997, p. 140 |
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