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Authority board members mostly reacted to the tobacco expenditures with indifference. None acknowledged being aware of them, but they did not question their validity or the vagueness of the expense logs. Vazzana,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the chairman, remarked that he was struck by how little was spent on cigars over the time period.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] wholesale.
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Tucciarello said. “It sounds like they’re sitting down to drinks and cigars and if that’s what it takes to spend time with top executives, that’s what he has to do.” Only one board member expressed doubt about the expenses.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Willie J. Lightfoot, a board member and Democratic Monroe County legislator, called them “absurd.” “There is no reason to be spending that much in smoke shops. Is he smoking crack?” Lightfoot said. “As a board member, it definitely raises concerns, and I think the public will feel the same way, too.”
SYDNEY�DTobacco control advocate Mary Assunta needed only to sit through a congressional meeting in the Philippines to feel the forces at work against her cause in a country where over 17 million people or almost a third of the adult population smoke. “I was quite surprised to see some of the congressmen present there and was particularly taken aback by some of the comments made,” said Assunta, a Malaysian national based in Australia, who in 2008 attended a technical committee meeting as an invited resource person at the House of Representatives.
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