Digest of Other White House Announcements
07/16/1998
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Cigarette smoking is the most single significant public health problem facing our people today.
Our balanced budget includes a 15-cents-a-pack cigarette tax to help States provide health care for up to 5 million uninsured children.
I urge the Congress to do the right thing and restore the full $34 million when they return in September.
The smoking of tobacco products is thus prohibited in all interior space owned, rented, or leased by the executive branch of the Federal Gov...