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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 Massachusetts office on smoking control has an annual budget of almost $60 |
| | million, larger than the entire federal effort. |
| | Ashes to Ashes, p. 565 |
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| | "Nearly one-third of the states have passed some form of 'smoker's rights' legislation, |
| | including New Jersey, where Philip Morris lobbyists wrote the law, which included |
| | barring insurance companies from charging higher premiums to smokers." |
| | Ashes to Ashes, p. 682 |
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| | The tobacco industry mounted an unsuccessful recall campaign against an |
| | Albuquerque councilman who had sponsored the passage of a strong smoking |
| | restriction law. |
| | Ashes to Ashes, p. 684 |
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| | Philip Morris in Texas in 1989 spent $441,000 on lobbyists and consultants, not |
| | including other outlays such as $10,000 for a "legislative buck hunt." |
| | Ashes to Ashes, p. 686 |
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| | Between 1989 and 1994, the Smokeless Tobacco Council and U.S. Tobacco paid |
| | $9.2 million in fees to "state legislative consultants." |
| | The Washington Monthly, May 1996, p. 22 |
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