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The cigar association is one of 20 official Congressional Staff Organizations, which are meant to promote networking among congressional staff. Most cater to certain groups and interests,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], such as the Congressional Hispanic Staff Association, the Capitol Hill Bible Study Staff Association, the House Chiefs of Staff Association and the Congressional Golf Staff Association.
Chaleff said the congressman’s only involvement with the cigar association was sponsoring it last year. He said Bilbray intended to encourage networking among Democratic and Republican staffers. Even though a member of Congress must sponsor these organizations, and the House ethics committee must approve events, basic details about their activities are not public.
None of the cigar club’s officers—including Bilbray’s senior policy advisor, Gary Kline—returned the Watchdog Institute’s phone calls or e-mails asking for the dates and locations of events. The tobacco industry is powerful, intransigent, and deep-pocketed all around the world, and China is no exception. In the US,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], tobacco companies had never lost a case until 1996, when the political tide started to turn.
Today the anti-smoking cause is enjoying wide public support in the US as exemplified in last June’s Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act signed by President Barack Obama into law. In China on the other hand, the tobacco industry is booming.
Total production of cigarettes exceeds that of US, Russia,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the European Union, India, Brazil, and Japan – combined, that is. Revenue grew by 13 percent last year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and this year it is likely to pass the half trillion yuan (US$146.4 billion) mark.
How the tobacco industry shrugs off the Ministry of Health’s new anti-smoking initiative can be found in a statement, at a recent Chinese Peoples’ Political Consultative Conference meeting, by Mr Zhang Zhengbao,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the deputy bureau chief of China’s Tobacco Bureau, the industry’s highest regulatory body.
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