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LETTER: Support tobacco act to regulate products 

Jump to full article: Springfield (MO) News-Leader, 2009-06-07
Author: Chris Buckland, "You're the Cure" volunteer, Holts Summit

Intro:

As an advocate for the American Heart Association, I want to thank Sen. Claire McCaskill for co-sponsoring the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

Incredibly, our nation's most preventable cause of death is unregulated . . .

Big Tobacco spends $423 million a year in Missouri to promote such dangerous products to adults and teenagers, jeopardizing public health. I want to encourage Congress to follow Senator McCaskill's lead and support the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

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