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- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:43:59 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
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"Can Tobacco Cure Smoking?"
And Other Highlights Of ALEC's Meeting in Salt Lake
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"Can Tobacco Cure Smoking?"
And Other Highlights Of ALEC's Meeting in Salt Lake
Posted: 07/27/2012 1:14 pm
Mary Bottari.
Center for Media and Democracy,
ALECexposed.org and BanksterUSA.org
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
mary-bottari/alec-conference-2012_b_1705979.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/c5qc9wh
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Yesterday, as General Motors and Walgreens announced they were quitting
the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC members were
meeting at a "five diamond" hotel in Salt Lake City to discuss how tobacco
can cure smoking.
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Can Tobacco Cure Smoking?
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ALEC brings together corporate lobbyists and right-wing politicians behind
closed doors to craft, amend and vote on ALEC "model" bills, which are
then introduced in statehouses across the land stripped of their ALEC
origin.
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According to an agenda obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy
(CMD), "Can Tobacco Cure Smoking?" is the title of a workshop yesterday
morning led by the tobacco industry-backed Dr. Brad Rodu, who is trained
as a dentist but has the title "Chair of Tobacco Harm Reduction Research"
at the University of Louisville, a program that the Wall Street Journal
found was primarily funded by U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co., an ALEC member
and manufacturer of smokeless tobacco brands like Copenhagen and Skoal. He
is also a Senior Fellow at the Heartland Institute, the Illinois-based
think tank that attracted attention earlier this year for making
billboards that likened those who believe in man-made climate change to
mass murderers and terrorists.
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Rodu's research supports the idea that smokers should replace cigarettes
with smokeless chewing tobacco or "snus" moist tobacco packets -- a "free
market" solution to reducing smoking that would allow tobacco companies to
continue profiting off of addiction.
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The Food & Drug Administration and health advocates have strongly opposed
substituting cigarettes with smokeless tobacco because "chew" and "snus"
still cause cancer and other serious diseases, and suggesting that
smokeless tobacco is a safe alternative would likely lead to a rise in
overall tobacco use. The risk is even more significant because tobacco
companies market the product to young people with "winter chill" flavors
and bright candy-colored packaging. Additionally, because of the low salt
content, snus users don't need to spit, making it nearly impossible to
tell if a high schooler is chewing snus or Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
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As CMD has reported, in May of 2011 ALEC member Sen. Alberta Darling
(R-WI) quietly inserted an amendment into the state budget that was
virtually identical to the tobacco industry-supported ALEC model bill
"Resolution on the Enhancement of Economic Neutrality, Commercial
Efficiency, and Fairness in the Taxation of Moist Smokeless Tobacco (MST)
Products." The provision would change the way tobacco is taxed from a
per-unit basis or a percentage of cost to a weight-based tax, which would
effectively lower the price of snus and smokeless tobacco products
manufactured by the big tobacco companies. The provision successfully
passed after ALEC sent a letter to Wisconsin legislators supporting the
amendment, but it was too extreme even for Governor Scott Walker, who
vetoed it.
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Additional Topics Discussed in This Article:
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Health Care Companies in Bed with Big Tobacco?
Other Workshops
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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