Tell Senators to Protect Children from Tobacco Use
- Jun 1, 2009 - 1
Dear Friends:
The power to save untold thousands of lives from experiencing disease and premature death from tobacco use is within reach.
The Senate is expected to vote this week on a bill to provide oversight on the tobacco industry. Currently, Big Tobacco packages and promotes its products with virtually no meaningful checks. This results in some 400,000 tobacco-related deaths each year. And much of the industry’s $13 billion in annual marketing is directed at children to allure new consumers to replace dying ones. This should not be permitted to continue.
If you want to end this lack of oversight, please tell your senators to vote “yes” on the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (S. 982). You can reach them through the Capitol switchboard at 202/224-3121. Or click here to e-mail them.
The House has already passed the bill—by nearly a 3-to-1 margin. If the Senate kills this bill, many more men, women, and children will almost certainly begin lifelong tobacco addictions and die prematurely.
For more information:
Richard Land testimony to Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Thank you for doing your part to help protect others from the dangers of tobacco addiction.
In His Service,
Dr. Richard Land
President
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
Southern Baptist Convention
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1 On Jun 1st, 2009, at 4:51pm, Bill Lail wrote:
Any politician that votes not to bring all the dangers and addictons of tobacco use to the forefront of American citizens does not care for the people that has voted them in. These politicions need to be brought to the forefront of the families and voted out for their greed. Bill Lail