Cigarettes versus children

Big Tobacco Defeats Sick Kids” – Editorial – November 8, 2007

Don’t blame the tobacco companies! We have a President who vetoed the most important child healthcare legislation in fifty years, and a Congress that is so cowardly it caved in and failed to override Mr. Bush’s idiotic veto. The President did not want to offend the tobacco industry by signing a bill that would have raised the tax on a pack of cigarettes to pay for S-Chip.

Of course tobacco companies spent ridiculous amounts of money to defeat the Oregon legislation. Now they don’t have to raise the price for their deadly product, and they can exploit children who already have become the single largest group of new smokers in the country!




Henry A. Lowenstein