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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 33 The FDA, tobacco regulation and state lawsuits |
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| | "...what the tobacco industry is attempting to do is to distort what is being proposed by |
| | the FDA, turning it into a big-government-is-taking-away-your-rights, slippery-slope |
| | argument: tobacco today, what next tomorrow?" |
| | Journal of the National Cancer Institute, January 3, 1996, p. 6 (Scott Ballin) |
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| | Will the measures under consideration affect jobs related to legal tobacco sales? A. |
| | The only measures under consideration are to reduce the illegal sale of tobacco to |
| | children. Should we be concerned about job losses caused by reducing illegal sales |
| | of tobacco to children? A. No. Illegally selling an addictive and lethal product to |
| | children is not an acceptable means to create or sustain jobs. Then why is the tobacco |
| | industry fighting so hard against these measures? A. Studies show that 89 percent of |
| | all smokers begin as children or teenagers. The long-term profitability of the tobacco |
| | industry depends on several thousand children becoming addicted to cigarettes every |
| | day. The tobacco industry has opposed every meaningful proposal to reduce |
| | tobacco use by children. |
| | From Supporting FDA: Fact Sheet #5, August 7, 1995 |
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| | "To those who produce and market cigarettes, I say today: Take responsibility for |
| | your actions, sell your products only to adults, draw the line on children, show by your |
| | deeds as well as your words that you recognize that it is wrong as well as illegal to |
| | hook one million children a year on tobacco...We must act now before another |
| | generation of Americans is condemned to fight a difficult and grueling personal battle |
| | with an addiction that will cost millions of them their lives." |
| | President Bill Clinton, August 10, 1995 |
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| | "...the industry may be able to tie up President Clinton's tobacco proposals in the |
| | courts until the President is safely tucked up in his retirement home." |
| | Tobacco Control, Spring 1996, p. 10 |
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