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Hour for hour, and dollar for dollar, they're probably the most effective lobby on Capitol Hill.Sen. Ted Kennedy, on the Tobacco Institute. Longtime TI head Horace Kornegay has died.
[W]e must begin to reform the process that allows our opponents such easy access to the ballot box. Undated TI document. Landman, A. <I>Big Tobacco: Removing our access to the ballot box</I>
Federal and local legislation has been proposed to deal with the [youth smoking] issue. And, naturally, anti-smoking groups have spent a good deal of time and money discouraging youngsters from smoking. Unlike our proposed project, they present smoking as . . . unhealthy. . . Despite the tobacco industry's repeated assertions regarding youngsters, we continue to be seen as the problem--and certainly not part of the solution.TI document titled, "RESPONSIBLE LIVING FOR TEENAGERS A PUBLIC SERVICE PROPOSAL FOR THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY" <I>Daily Doc: TI, May, 1982: TI: Bad Kid Ads Show Smoking As Unhealthy, Repugnant</I>