[C-U Smokefree] Help Protect America's Kids from Smoking

[kdrea at lungil.org]

URGENT!  Please personalize and send this letter to U.S. Senator Durbin and U.S. Senator Fitzgerald. Then send it on to everyone you can think of!! 


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Dear Friend,

This year in America, kids will smoke nearly 900 
million packs of cigarettes, generating nearly 
$2 billion in revenue for Big Tobacco.

Senator Tom Harkin and Sen. Dianne Feinstein want 
to change that.  They are currently proposing a $1 
increase in the federal cigarette tax, generating 
revenue to fund cancer prevention, the National 
Institutes of Health, the Center for Disease 
Control and other vital health programs. This year, 
the President's budget actually proposes cuts in 
public health funding for the first time since 1982.

This proposal would be a win-win for America's kids.  
First, it would commit badly needed funding for 
cancer prevention activities.  Second, increasing 
the cigarette tax is proven to reduce smoking among 
kids!  It is estimated that increasing the cigarette 
tax by $1 would decrease the rate of youth smoking 
by 18%!

But this proposal needs your help if it is going to 
pass and protect America's kids from the dangers of 
tobacco. 

Click the link below to urge your Senators to support 
this proposal to help protect our kids from tobacco.
Send your letter at:  http://tfk.grassroots.com/Cong/March08/?lk=0-356222-256029-11639-0

Click the link below to send a free letter to your 
legislators supporting the Harkin-Feinstein proposal to 
increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes by one dollar. 
The current federal tax is only 39 cents per pack.

Send your feel now:  http://tfk.grassroots.com/va/March08/?lk=0-356222-256029-11639-0

America's Kids will thank you.  

Please forward this email to all your friends and 
family who would like to help protect our kids from 
the dangers of smoking.


Thanks again for all your help,

Carter Headrick
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids


Learn more about this campaign and other important issues.  
Click here to visit http://www.TobaccoFreeKids.org





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