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Tom Harkin: But here is the catch. The tobacco industry was successful in pulling the teeth from this provision. Synar has no teeth…

On the recordJuly 23, 1997
But here is the catch. The tobacco industry was successful in pulling the teeth from this provision. Synar has no teeth because there are no hard targets. It is discretionary whether any State will lose its block grant. That is why SAMHSA is not an enforcement program, no one is going to lose their block grants, because there are no teeth in the targets. If States miss their targets, they are not going to lose their block grants. To my knowledge, no State has.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing the weaknesses in the Synar provision related to tobacco control.

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