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Congress Sends Obama Legislation on Regulating Tobacco 

Rep. Howard Coble , R-N.C., whose district is home to thousands of farmers and factory workers who depend on tobacco for their livelihoods, assailed the legislation.

“Allowing the FDA to regulate tobacco in any fashion inevitably will lead to FDA regulating the family farm,” he warned.

The bill, declared Rep. Virginia Foxx , R-N.C., is “emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.”

As in the Senate, advocates of the regulatory bill stressed the health risks of smoking and spoke in often emotional terms of the toll smoking had taken on their families.

“This plague has touched almost everyone,” said Polis.

Rep. Jane Harman , D-Calif., who watched both parents die of smoking-related diseases, said, “It was a nightmare, and one I would spare other families.”

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