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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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| | Recent data on the status of preemptive state tobacco control laws may be found in |
| | the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, January 8, 1999, Vol. 47, No. 51. |
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| | The Centers for Disease Control has recommended that one third of the tobacco |
| | settlement money going to the states be spent on tobacco control programs. |
| | However, so far state politicians have committed less than 2% of the funds to |
| | anti-smoking efforts. |
| | US News and World Report, February 7, 2000, p. 15 |
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| | The Tobacco Institute had a budget of $38 million in 1993. In Minnesota, one legislator |
| | estimated that the industry maintains at least 60 lobbyists. In New York, the tobacco |
| | industry spent $1.1 million on lobbying in 1993. And to fight a bill to reduce youth |
| | access in Washington state, the industry hired nine outside lobbyists at a cost of |
| | $200,000. |
| | Tobacco Industry Strategies, p. 22 |
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| | Massachusetts voters in 1992 approved a measure to increase the state's cigarette |
| | tax to 51 cents a pack. The tobacco industry spent $10 million in an unsuccessful |
| | attempt to defeat the measure, which will raise $130 million a year for health |
| | programs for the poor. |
| | American Medical News, November 23, 1992 |
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| | New York City considered a new workplace and restaurant smoking ban in 1994. |
| | Philip Morris told the mayor that if the law passed, they would consider moving their |
| | corporate headquarters and its 2000 jobs out of the city, and stop donations for New |
| | York cultural activities and the arts. (Nevertheless, Mayor Giuliani signed the |
| | ordinance in January 1995.) |
| | New York Times, September 26, 1994, p. A1, and Reuters, January 11, 1995 |
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