Dallas Adult Entertainment: ERLC’s Land cites gains in Washington
The law includes several provisions necessary to
aggressively prosecute sex traffickers in the United States and to strengthen
the State Departments 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 cant continue to pimp these cancer sticks to our
children, Land said of the tobacco companies.