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• Position: No Comment - Steve Buyer on smoking - Brief article

ProPublica reports that Steve Buyer, a Republican Congressman from Indiana from 1993 to 011 and longtime friend of the tobacco industry while in office, has become a paid consultant and registered lobbyist r tobacco giant Reynolds American. In Buyer gave a peculiar speech on the se floor where he deflected blame away from tobacco: "You could have smoked that lettuce and you still end up with the same problems...