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	<title><![CDATA[The Unintended Consequences of Tobacco Laws]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-stier/the-unintended-consequenc_b_45715.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps the notion that members of Congress don't read the legislation they vote on is an outside the beltway myth. But if you were asked to vote on tobacco legislation without having the opportunity to read it -- knowing only that the bill was supported by Altria (Philip Morris) and opposed by the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), how would you vote?

<p>I hope you wouldn't vote with Senator Ted Kennedy, whose "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control...</p></p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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