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Jon Fox: “We are not antifarmer or antiagriculture. We are prohealth care, we are prochildren. It is our goal to stop lung cancer…”

On the recordJuly 24, 1997
We are not antifarmer or antiagriculture. We are prohealth care, we are prochildren. It is our goal to stop lung cancer in our lifetime. The Government that gives a Surgeon General warning on the dangers of smoking should not be subsidizing insurance for the crop of tobacco.
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Jon Fox
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Addressing the government's role in tobacco subsidies and health care.

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