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Butte County 5/15: Tobacco education and health care advocates don't want tobacco settlement money dropped into Butte County's general fund. With its siren shrieking and lights flashing, an Oroville Hospital ambulance pulled up in front of the Butte County Administration Office Tuesday morning to deliver petitions to qualify a measure for the November ballot to allocate money for tobacco use prevention and health care. Organizers of the FAIR (Full Allocation of Intended Revenues) campaign, which includes the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, American Heart Association, Butte Glenn Medical Society, and others, say they have almost 12,000 signatures, more than enough to qualify their plan for the November 2002 ballot. To dramatize the emergency nature of the issue, the signatures were pulled from the ambulance and transported by gurney to the county-clerk recorder's elections office. "People are dying because of tobacco, and many are dying because of the deceptive and illegal practices of the tobacco industry," said Dr. Richard N. Gray, Jr., representing Butte-Glenn Medical Society. "The petitions are delivered in an emergency vehicle because we have an emergency."
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Said William V. Corr, Executive Director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: "Despite this progress, Tennessee still spends less than a third of the CDC's recommended minimum for tobacco prevention. It's critical that Tennessee build on its progress because tobacco companies are spending huge sums to market their deadly and addictive products. Tobacco prevention is an important investment that protects kids, saves lives and saves money for taxpayers by reducing tobacco-related health care costs."
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"The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids seizes every opportunity to criticize tobacco manufacturers as part of their effort to advocate FDA regulatory authority over tobacco products," Payne said. "We support their right to do so but believe it requires full and fair disclosure of the facts so that people can draw their own objective conclusions.
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"Thanks to Governor Doyle and the Legislature, Wisconsin made important progress this year in protecting kids from tobacco," said William V. Corr, Executive Director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "It is critical that Wisconsin build on this year's progress by enacting a comprehensive smoke-free workplace law and further increasing tobacco prevention funding to CDC-recommended levels. Tobacco prevention is a smart investment for Wisconsin that will reduce smoking, save lives and save money by reducing tobacco-related health care costs."
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WASHINGTON, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kids across Texas will rally against tobacco on March 28 as they join thousands of young people nationwide for the twelfth annual Kick Butts Day, sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. More than 2,000 events are planned across the nation (for a list of local events see below).
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