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A 5 page paper supporting tobacco regulation. It incorporates a strong thesis, the fight by the tobacco industry against current legislation, President Clinton's response, the legislature's response, and relevant news. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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A recent California anti-smoking campaign replicates the tobacco industrys long-standing ad strategy of featuring glamorous, healthy models. On the billboard, a handsome
blade asks an exquisite brunette, "Mind if I smoke?" Her answer, "Care if I die?" (France et al. pp. 34). The tough anti-smoking ad was developed by Californias Health
Services Department as part of a $107 million anti-tobacco campaign that mirrors the feelings of millions of Americans in support of tobacco regulation. Supporters for tobacco regulation include the president,
most of the senate, health providers and children, and most of the public--but they have their opponents. The strongest opponent to regulation, of
course, is the tobacco industry. The industry has spent the last few years assessing its strength and lining up allies. It has found them in the buffeted arts
communities, tens of millions of smokers, "tobacco members" of congress, and in labor unions. Some of the campaigns used to fight the public outcry include contributing to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art for placing a logo on a program; suing ABC for claiming the industry "spiked" its cigarettes; getting 607,000 signatures for a California referendum that would preempt local
anti-smoking statutes; and hiring the former president of the National Conference of Mayors to organize the National Smokers Alliance, hoping to create a powerful organization by recruiting teenagers all over
the country (Kemper 1997). The tobacco industrys most powerful allies include Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), chair of the House Commerce Committee who has
stated that he will not consider tobacco-control legislation (and who has received $111,476 from the industry); Rep. Charlie Rose (D-N.C.), who insists he will protect the tobacco farmers (and received
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