Writing Letters for Tobacco Control

Keep those cards and letters coming...

Contact your Senators and Representative and ask them to protect academic freedom and stop interfering with research on tobacco. Also contact:

The FDA coment period is over. But don't forget OSHA! The situation is serious. See the ScarcNet Alert.
OSHA's proposed regulation of workplace smoking also has generated a massive outpouring from the tobacco industry--OSHA has received an unprecedented 100,000 comments--most reportedly reflecting the industry's postion.
OSHA had proposed a smoking ban in workplaces a year ago, and was supposed to have come to a final ruling by the end of this year, but the rule-makeing process, according to the Legal Times, has been gummed up by:
The agency being flooded with of tens of thousands of comments instigated by tobacco interests.
The OSHA hearings being dragged out for months by tobacco interests.
Threats by tobacco interests to seek Congressional action to block implementation of any adverse rulings.
The ongoing threat of being "defunded" by a Congress which has received an unprecedented amount of tobacco contributions this year.
To get an idea of what's happening, check out tobacco industry scientists' OSHA Q&A Tobacco industry scientists answer questions on the relationship between Primary Smoking & Lung Cancer

Send coments to:

Tom Hall
U.S. Department of Labor
200 Constitution Avenue, NW
Room N-3647
Washington, DC 20210
fax: (202) 219-5986

Pressures on Clinton, though, are still enormous. Letters of support may be sent to: