Detroit Adult Entertainment: Land cites gains in Washington

June 25, 2009 at 2:01 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments

The law includes several provisions necessary to aggressively prosecute sex traffickers in the United States and to strengthen the State Department’s efforts to combat slavery and trafficking worldwide.
Passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act was another major victory that would not have been possible without Southern Baptists’ involvement, Land said. The bill, signed into law by President Obama June 22, grants authority to the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the marketing, manufacturing, labeling, distribution and sale of tobacco products.
The bill was a long time coming, Land said, noting the SBC passed its first resolution calling for federal regulation of tobacco in the 1930s. Tobacco kills 400,000 people a year, and the measure will blunt cigarette companies’ attempts to reach the youth market with their deadly products, he said.
“They can’t continue to pimp these cancer sticks to our children,” Land said of the tobacco companies.

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