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I have the start of the informational flyers:


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H.R. 1256 (Waxman) and S. 982 (Kennedy)
Family Smoking and Tobacco Control Acts
Demand provisions in this legislation!

We are trying to get information of 2 flawed Tobacco Control bills in
the right hands before they are voted in by the Senate and signed into law.

We would ask that our Wisconsin Senators

- Oppose this legislation unless/until it is amended to allow currently
marketed smokefree tobacco/nicotine products to remain on
the market, and
- Support tobacco harm reduction amendment(s) for smoke-
free tobacco/nicotine products that are consistent with provisions
in S.579, Burr/Hagan - and H.R.1261, Buyer - bills.

Highlights on HR 1256 and S 982 Tobacco Control Acts
Sponsored by Altria/Philip Morris, manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes,
These bills would grant the FDA:
Regulatory control over traditional tobacco cigarettes.
-But not the ability to halt sales of tobacco cigarettes.
Complete control over new smokefree tobacco and/or harm reduction products.
-The FDA will hold these to pharmacological testing standards to be
marketed in the US instead of mirrored against the product they
are intended to replace (cigarettes), and can halt sales/importations.

This legislation protects cigarettes and their makers,
while eliminating their cleaner, more innovative
competition!



Ask your representative WHY we are allowing Altria
to use the government to protect its interests at the
price of thousands of American lives???



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The Electric Cigarette – an alternative to smoking tobacco



This device uses a small battery and atomizer, which takes a solution of nicotine suspended in Propylene Glycol, and vaporizes it for inhalation by the user. An exhaled “cloud” contains only harmless water vapor. There is no smoke, second-hand or otherwise, no tar being inhaled into the lungs, and no ash or spent butts for litter, as there is nothing being burned by the device. The fluid used comes in different flavors and strengths of nicotine, and users can even choose “no-nic” fluids when they are ready to step away from the addiction.

Here are some of the arguments opponents of the Electric Cigarette are using to vilify these devices.

Argument: Electronic cigarettes are being sold to kids.
Fact: Electronic cigarettes are intended for committed smokers of the legal age to smoke.
Argument: Electronic cigarette cartridges offer many flavors in order to attract adolescent users.
Fact: Many adult-intended products offer a variety of flavors.
Argument: People consume too much nicotine with electronic cigarettes because there is no governor.
Fact: The amount of nicotine in electronic cigarettes is much less than other OTC products
Argument: Nicotine is bad for you.
Fact: The long-term use of nicotine is orders of magnitude safer than tobacco smoking.


Argument/Fact & smoking stats reprinted with permission of the ECA- Electronic Cigarette Association


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SMOKING FACTS AND STATISTICS
• For the first time since 1965, the percent of US adults that smoke tobacco rose between 2007 and the first half of 2008. There are 45.3 million (20.8%) tobacco smokers in the US.

• The US ranks fifth among countries with the highest number of tobacco smokers. The top ten countries (China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, United States, Japan, Brazil, Bangladesh, Germany and Turkey) represent two-thirds of the world’s smoking population.

• Worldwide approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased per minute; 15 billion cigarettes are sold each day; 5 trillion cigarettes are produced and used annually.

• More than 360 billion cigarettes were smoked in the US in 2007, creating an estimated total of 135,000,000 lbs of discarded butts; butts make up 38 percent of litter worldwide and are considered the leading litter problem in the US.

• More than 400,000 people in the US die of tobacco-related diseases each year (approximately 1,095 deaths per day or 45 deaths per hour), accounting for one in every five deaths and representing the single largest cause of preventable deaths in the US.
• With more than 4,000 chemical compounds, 60 of which are known or suspected to cause cancer, tobacco smoking is thought to negatively affect every part of the human body.

• Consumers spent $3 billion worldwide in 2008 on cessation products. That’s up from $1.4 billion in 2002. Still, smoking cessation products are known to be about five percent effective and 80 percent of smoking cessation product sales are made to habitual nicotine users.

• If a person smokes one pack of tobacco cigarettes per day for 50 years (average age of starting tobacco smoking is 13), they will spend $109,500 on tobacco cigarettes in today’s dollars, compared to $122,220 on groceries during the same period.


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This publication is not endorsed by any Campaign,
Organization, Political party or Affiliation. We are simply
A group of private citizens who would like to see our
Government work for its citizens.