And within his first week, the Pence administration slashed the agency’s budget to $5 million.” According to the Indianapolis Business Journal, “Funding for Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation was down to $8 million per year when Pence took office in January 2013. And his administration slashed the already small amount of the tobacco tax and settlement money available for smoking prevention and cessation in 2013, well below the CDC’s recommended levels. In 2015, Pence signed a law making it easier to create cigar bars in the state. Reynolds/Reynolds American have combined to contribute at least $63,500 to his 20 campaigns, according to data from the National Institute on Money in State Politics.ĬREDIT: Truth Tobacco Industry Documents archiveĪnd Indiana’s public health has paid the price. Altria/Phillip Morris, Lorillard, and R.J. Three years later, Pence ran for governor, again with significant tobacco industry support. House of Representatives to vote against the bipartisan Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate cigarettes and blasted a 2009 bill to expand healthcare for kids as “a tax increase on smokers to pay for a new middle-class entitlement.” In 2009, Pence was one of just 97 people in the U.S. The stores, which operated under the name “Tobacco Road,” closed in 2004 in the face of higher cigarette taxes and more online tobacco sales. Pence’s financial disclosures from 2000 to 2003 noted six-figure holdings and at least $15,000 in annual income from the company. Oil, operated a chain of more than 200 cigarette and gasoline convenience stores. Indeed, Pence’s now-defunct family business, Kiel Bros.
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A May 2000 letter from the Reynolds PAC to Pence, now available in the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents archive archives, conveyed a $1,000 check and praised his “position on issues important to our company.” Reynolds, and US Tobacco, according to Political MoneyLine data reviewed by ThinkProgress. His actual total was already at least $13,000 in contributions from the political action committees for Brown & Williamson, Philip Morris, R.J. Surgeon General had documented the link - in 1964.Īfter the debate, the paper reported, Pence acknowledged he had received an estimated $5,000 and $10,000 in contributions from tobacco companies. According to the Indianapolis Star’s coverage of the exchange, “Pence clarified that he wrote that there was no causal link medically identifying smoking as causing lung cancer.” While cigarette manufacturers might have been still claiming that there was not causal link between smoking and lung cancer, medical science had settled the question years earlier. In a debate that September, his Democratic opponent pressed him on the suggestion that smoking does not cause cancer and noted his contributions from tobacco companies. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill.” Pence acknowledged that smoking is not “good for you,” but claimed that two-thirds of smokers do not die from smoking related illness and “9 out of ten smokers do not contract lung cancer.” He warned of a slippery-slope in which government would soon seek to discourage fatty foods, caffeine, and SUVs.
House seat, came out against a proposed settlement between government and the tobacco industry, calling it “big government.” In a shocking editorial, he wrote: “Time for a quick reality check. Mike Pence (R-IN), then running for an open U.S. In return, they rewarded him with more than $100,000 in campaign donations.
Mike Pence (R-IN) has consistently carried the tobacco industry’s water, denying the dangers of cigarettes, opposing government regulation, and slashing smoking cessation efforts.
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