[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 4, 1994]
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    TOBACCO-SUBSIDIZING CONGRESS NOT QUALIFIED TO REFORM HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the FDA said nicotine is addictive. Well, 
I am not so sure we knew that. The Surgeon General said smoking causes 
cancer, so each pack of cigarettes has a warning label. The EPA said 
smoking not only kills, it is even killing nonsmokers.
  What I am trying to figure out is, Congress gives hundreds of 
millions of dollars to tobacco farmers to grow more tobacco. Beam me 
up. Our Government tells us it kills, but our Congress subsidizes more 
tobacco.
  Mr. Speaker, any Congress that will give more money to American 
farmers to grow tobacco is not capable nor qualified to write any 
health care policy for this country, and there is so much political 
hypocrisy it sickens me.
  Think about that shot.

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