Topics in the News: Tobacco
Haley Barbour on Drugs
: Apr 20, 2011
Ban synthetic marijuana
The former tobacco lobbyist turned Mississippi governor signed a law last
September banning synthetic marijuana (or "MoJo") from being sold in his state.
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Source: Tim Murphy in Mother Jones magazine
Mike Huckabee on Health Care
: Sep 17, 2007
Insurance reward for avoiding tobacco, alcohol, obesity
Q: Healthcare consumes up to 17% of our GNP. It appears that lifestyles that are based in moral principles would reduce healthcare expenditures. Would you support a private healthcare approach that rewards behavior that promotes moral lifestyles--
that is, avoiding alcohol and tobacco consumption, as well as obesity reduction, exercise and nutrition that promotes health?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
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Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Ron Paul on Health Care
: Sep 17, 2007
Insurance reward for avoiding tobacco, alcohol, obesity
Q: Healthcare consumes up to 17% of our GNP. It appears that lifestyles that are based in moral principles would reduce healthcare expenditures. Would you support a private healthcare approach that rewards behavior that promotes moral lifestyles--
that is, avoiding alcohol and tobacco consumption, as well as obesity reduction, exercise and nutrition that promotes health?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
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Source: [Xref Huckabee] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Mark Sanford on Health Care
: Nov 1, 2002
Transfer more Medicaid recipients into managed care programs
Indicate which principles you support regarding health issues. - Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- Support patients’ right to sue their HMOs.
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Use South Carolina’s portion of the national tobacco settlement only for anti-smoking and health programs.
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Source: 2002 S.C. Gubernatorial National Political Awareness Test
Rudy Giuliani on Government Reform
: Oct 1, 2002
Debates on campaign finance reform miss the point on honesty
Debates on campaign finance reform miss the point. I favor it, but in the final analysis money will not make an honest man dishonest or a dishonest man honest.In politics, there is an outcry whenever an officeholder who has received campaign
contributions from a particular industry supports a position perceived as favorable to that industry. The implication is that, say, the tobacco industry’s contribution “bought” the official’s support or at least bought access. I would be the last to say
it never happens, but much more common is a company choosing to support those it views as sympathetic to its interests. At any given moment in my administration, someone who supported me was angry because I didn’t do what they hoped I would do. If they
withdraw their support, you don’t want them around anyway. There’s no one thing you can do to establish the principle. All you can do is keep making decisions based on what you believe, and by your example, you will demonstrate your independence.
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Source: Leadership, autobiography by Rudolph Giuliani, p.222-223
Donald Trump on Drugs
: Jul 2, 2000
Never touched drugs, nor alcohol, tobacco, or coffee
I’ve never taken drugs of any kind, never had a glass of alcohol. Never had a cigarette, never had a cup of coffee.
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Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p. 24-25
Hillary Clinton on Health Care
: Apr 5, 2000
Regulate tobacco; fine of $3000 for every underage smoker
By regulating tobacco products, we can make sure that the tobacco industry is not allowed to target our kids with their deadly products. If elected, I would work on legislation to regulate tobacco. I would also
assess the Tobacco Industry $3,000 for every underage smoker if youth smoking is not lowered by 50% by 2004.
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Source: Remarks at New York City Annual Kick Butts Day
Mike Huckabee on Health Care
: Nov 1, 1992
Ban smoking in all public places
As a long-time sufferer from extremely sensitive allergies to tobacco smoke (I take an allergy shot each week for this condition), I would like to see smoking banned in public places, or at least a requirement that smoking cannot take place when it would
infringe upon the clean air of nonsmokers. For some of us, it is not a mere nuisance--it represents a very definite health threat. It should not be appropriate to indiscriminately blow toxic smoke on other people.
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Source: Responses to Associated Press Questionnaire for AR Senate