Give Tobacco To sign or not sign?
If lawyers usually 40 to 20 countries from June, they had a historic agreement with the tobacco industry, many hoped that Congress simply consent. The objective of Matthew L. Myers of the National Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, helped to accelerate negotiations on the deal was “the first truly comprehensive national system, a reduction in the number of children, a behavior dependence vis-à-vis Tobacco products each day, and help adults who have already intoxicated finish. ”
The convention requires the tobacco companies:
Pay billion dollars for a multitude of public education and health programs;
Reimbursement of States for the costs of treating diseases of tobacco consumption;
The land set aside a multi-billion dollar compensation fund in smokers, winning individual complaints against tobacco companies, and
limit the marketing and advertising of cigarettes, especially for young people.
Joe Camel and Marlboro Man would be history. Billboards tobacco would disappear, as if the sponsorship of sporting events. T-shirts, hats and other objects designed for children should also disappear.
The colony has months of intense negotiations. The tobacco industry is rich, powerful and, until recently, stubbornly determined to fight all efforts to reform its sales tactics. Maintain your position, he even allegedly lied under oath to Congress, it is not known, that nicotine is intoxicated. So, sign up the problem?
Not so fast, says members of Congress Henry Waxman (D-CA), whose Committee of State and government heads of the tobacco industry were allegedly lied during an investigation House 1994.
“The agreement includes collective actions, a state appeals and the right of individuals to research claims, caps, which helps restore individuals per year,” Waxman wrote in a recent article in the Washington Post. “And it allows the industry to pay judgments against him - including decisions on the basis of future misconduct - by reducing their payments to children’s health and other public health insurance.”
Waxman more critical than on regulation, urbanization, industry has “something equally unprecedented: it effectively bars the FDA on the regulation of nicotine content of cigarettes.”
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