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US NEGOTIATORS FOR THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON TOBACCO CONTROL PROMOTE PHILIP MORRIS'S POINTS OF VIEW [11/20/01]

U.S. Negotiators Promoted Philip Morris's Changes to Global Tobacco Treaty - US House of Representatives/Committee on Government Reform/Minority Office

Yesterday's edition of GTN included a Los Angeles Times article in which Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, "accused the Bush administration... of marching in lock-step with Big Tobacco to undermine or eliminate serious global regulations to curb tobacco use." The text of Rep. Waxman's letter to President George W. Bush is available as a 12-page PDF document from the Committee website, and is accompanied by a link to an earlier document outlining the position of Philip Morris. Waxman's concluding charge reads: "Congress and the American public deserve a full explanation for why your negotiators have attempted to undermine the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control." A Washington Post follow-up to the L.A. Times piece is also linked below.

News links:
Administration Accused on Tobacco - Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54667-2001Nov19.html
Bush's tobacco policies assailed - Atlanta Journal-Constitution/L.A. Times
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_b39f4fc42700e1b10054.html

Minority Office press release link:
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/
Correspondence links:

Letter to President Bush (PDF) - Office of Rep. Henry Waxman
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs/pdf_inves/pdf_tobacco_philip_morris_let.pdf
Philip Morris's Requests to the Administration (PDF) - Office of Rep. Henry Waxman
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs/pdf_inves/pdf_tobacco_philip_morris_rep.pdf

ALA Press release link:
Lung Association Calls on White House To Reject Big Tobacco's Influence in Negotiating Global Tobacco Control Treaty - U.S. Newswire
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1119-105.html