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to·bac·co
n., pl. -cos or -coes.
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Any
of various plants of the genus Nicotiana, especially N.
tabacum, native to tropical America and widely cultivated
for their leaves, which are used primarily for smoking.
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Leaves
of these plants, dried & processed chiefly for use in
cigarettes, cigars, or snuff or smoking in pipes.
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Products
made from these plants.
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The
habit of smoking tobacco: I gave up tobacco.
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A
crop of tobacco.
can·cer (kăn'sər)
n.
Any of various malignant neoplasms characterized by the proliferation of anaplastic cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue and metastasize to new body sites.
The pathological condition characterized by such growths.
A pernicious, spreading evil: A cancer of bigotry spread through the community.
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Tobacco Lobbyist in the State of Vermont, this site will not now
or ever again place any Vermont Tobacco Lobbyist on this
site.
It appears using third parties the Tobacco Industry
has won a single State, the State of Vermont. We are also
barred by Federal COURT Order from revealing the names of the
parties to the Federal Law Suit nor are we able to tell you who
the Vermont Tobacco Lobbyist is which we are unable to reveal due
to the strict orders of US Federal Court Judge John Garvan Murtha of
the US District of Vermont.
During the case
the clerk of the
court for the US District of Vermont, Richard Paul Wasko and his
staff are alleged to have
attempted to and are believed to have violated the Civil Rights of
the administrator of this site, all in what are believed to be
attempts to shake the administrator of this site from exercising
FREE SPEECH, under the first amendment to the United States
Constitution and Public Opinion forums against Big Tobacco!
TobaccoLobbyist.com urges a boycott of Vermont goods and services
pending a change in the Vermont, Judicial landscape, and removal
of prejudicial clerks like Richard (Dick) Paul Wasko from the US
Federal Courts, the removal of Clerk Richard Paul Wasko and other
clerks will enable a smooth administration of justice without
unwarranted bias and certain ills upon society in the protection
of the American People from Big Tobacco. These statements
and others are governed under first amendment CONSTITUTIONAL
Rights of the people of these the United States of America in
protest requesting review of grievances against the United States
Government and the Civil Servants that serve the United States
Government like the LIFE-TIME Appointed Federal Judge and
especially Clerk Richard Paul Wasko. All first amendment
rights are so herein stated. This site is explicitly NOT for
publication or viewing from the US State of Vermont, in the
Country of the United States of America. Vermont is the 14th
US State added to the Union of the United States of America,
Vermont a single US State in the Country of the United States of
America has succeeded in preventing the people of Vermont from
receiving the TRUTH and protection against big tobacco, it is
evident that the stores of the US State of Vermont, have the
ultimate protection from Big Tobacco to continue to sell tobacco
products.
Tobacco
Lobbyist .com was founded to expose the individuals and
corporations who are "in the pocket" of the Tobacco
Lobby. www.TobaccoLobbyist.com
was founded by Internet Entrepreneur
and Inventor Mike Nelson. Our purposes are simple to
expose the Tobacco Industry and their Lobby in Washington DC and
throughout the Country. The Tobacco Lobby is large and
strong, their influence effects smokers and non-smokers a
like. Health-care costs are ski-rocketing with no end in
site, the Tobacco Industry and Tobacco Lobby are largely
responsible for our ski-rocketing health care costs as the Nation
of the United States as other Nations too are struggling with many
cases of Cancer and other diseases. Tobacco is one of the
largest killers in the United States. What a shame even our
Judicial System in the United States is not immune from influence
and possible corruption from the Tobacco Industry and the Tobacco
Lobby.
"Tobacco's
Revolving Door To Congress"
By
David Jakubiak, Medill News Service
(EXCONG)
WASHINGTON – As federal lawmakers consider legislation to seal
the $368 billion tobacco settlement, many of them are listening to
familiar voices.
Tobacco
companies are enlisting the support of former politicians,
including two Senate majority leaders, House members and staff,
party officials, a secretary of state, and a governor.
Tobacco
Institute Vice President Walker Merryman said former lawmakers
have several advantages as lobbyists. The Institute spent more
than $2.9 million hiring six in-house lobbyists, including former
Rep. Robin Tallon, D-S.C.
"Simply
by the fact that he knows these people and they know him, yes, he
would have greater access," Merryman said.
He
said his group’s decision to hire Tallon was based on
"attributes that (the Institute) found absolutely
unique."
"He
has a lot of familiarity with these issues and these people, and
has a tobacco background and represented a tobacco district,"
Merryman said.
One
law firm, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, has
assembled a Capitol dream team -- and made more than $6.8 million
lobbying for five major tobacco companies in the last 18 months.
The
firm has assembled a bipartisan roster of retired politicians,
including former Senate majority leaders George Mitchell, a
Democrat, and Bob Dole, a Republican, as well as former Texas Gov.
Ann Richards and former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. Dole and
Bentsen, however, are not registered as active lobbyists.
The
same firm has lobbied on behalf of Philip Morris Companies, RJR
Nabisco, Loews Corporation, United States Tobacco, Inc., and Brown
and Williamson Tobacco Corp.
Mitchell’s
and Richards’ names appear on the firm’s tobacco lobbying
reports, along with Harry C. MacPherson, a special counsel to
Lyndon Johnson’s White House, Berl Bernon, a consultant to the
Johnson administration, and Nell Payne, former counsel to Sen.
Pete Domenici, R-N.M. Representatives of Verner, Liipfert, Berhard,
McPherson & Hand were unavailable for comment.
Former
Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker also is lobbying for tobacco
companies through his law firm, Baker, Donelson, Bearman &
Caldwell. The firm reported receiving $600,000 in the second half
of 1997 to lobby on behalf of Philip Morris, RJ Nabisco, Loews and
Brown and Williamson.
The
law firm of Haley Barbour, the former chairman of the Republican
National Committee, reported earning $580,000 from Philip Morris,
$360,000 from Loews, $340,000 from RJ Nabisco, and $340,000 from
Brown and Williamson . Barbour himself is registered as a
lobbyist.
Philip
Morris also hired Michael F. Barrett, Jr., to whom they paid
$580,000, and Rufus L. Edmisten, who received $30,000. Barrett is
the former chief of staff of the House Oversight Committee and
Edmisten was the deputy chief counsel of the Senate Watergate
Committee.
Rep.
James Clyburn, D-S.C., who currently holds the seat once held by
Tallon, indicated that a lobbyist’s former status does not
impact his access to members of Congress. He added that he has
never been approached by Tallon about tobacco or tobacco issues.
"I
have not spoken with him about tobacco since I took office,"
said Clyburn. "I may have addressed an audience that he was
in and talked about tobacco. But, we have never talked about
tobacco one-on-one."
Jim
Manley, spokesman for Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., would not
comment on lobbyists’ access to lawmakers, but said a meeting
last year between Richards, representing tobacco, and the senator
was more of a "courtesy call."
"The
senator, although being strongly against tobacco and the tobacco
industry, is still in favor of hearing both sides," he said
of the meeting. He said the meeting was an exchange of ideas and
that the senator "wants a tobacco settlement on his terms,
not the tobacco companies’ terms."
Alan
Wheat, a former Democratic representative from Missouri whose name
appears on several lobbying reports for the firm Winburn &
Jenkins, said he has never lobbied on tobacco issues. The firm was
paid at least $520,000 in 1996 and 1997 to represent Philip
Morris.
"The
firm had a policy of putting everyone’s names on the reports to
insure that we were operating under the law. I am not a tobacco
lobbyist, I never was a tobacco lobbyist, I have never lobbied on
tobacco issues," Wheat said.
Wheat
left Winburn & Jenkins last December to open his own firm.
Wheat and Associates does not represent tobacco, he said.
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