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Originally Posted by pig
I don't know dc: essentially, what you're saying is that the health organizations, the tobacco companies, and the guys the tobacco companies are paying off and found a compromise that benefits the tobacco companies.
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I am saying they crafted a bill that is likely to get enough votes to ensure passage and benefits the public health. Its virtually the same bill that the Republican Senate passed unanimously in 2004 only to be stalled in the Republican House.
Its not the best bill to regulate tobacco, but "politics makes strange bedfellows" and IMO, the trade-off is acceptable in order to take that long overdue and necessary first step.