Ed Markey Quotes
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Markey, Edward J. "Introduction of the Cigarette Fire Safety Act of 2006." Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, 16 Feb. 2006, p. E176.
The deaths and health problems caused by smoking exist the world over. In Islam the religion is overriding into all facets of society and life. Whereas this lack of separation of church and state presents many difficulties, this quotation demonstrates one positive aspect if the ability of Islam to improve the quality of life. Smoking cessation and avoidance becomes a religious obligation—not just a sensible thing to do to preserve health.
This statement might have been expecrted in 1970 by a conservative politiican, but was astounding in 2000 when he wrote it, The quote was not well known in the 2016 Presidential Campaign when he and Donald Trump were elected. At the time of this statement Pence, running for his 2nd term as a Congressman from Indiana. He recieved very substantial campaign contributions from the tobacco industry and their affilated PACS--at least $13,000 which was then a substantial sum for a Congressional election. This statement caused serious analysits and students of politics to choose between some very unpalitable conclusions about Pence: They were: 1) He was so ignorant and naive that he did not know that Cigarette Smoking was close to the major cause of premature death in the United States, 2) He knew about it but was willing to support and abet the killing of hundreds of thousands of Americans in order to get some additional campaign moncy. 3) He was a sociopath who did not concern himelf with the liefe/death consequences of his actions. 3) most people eliminate as his statements have always shown just the opposite throughout his career. He has always been deeply concerned about morality and is a ddeply religious man. Most of his strong suporters either overlook the incident or are unaware that it happened. Others speculate between 1) and 2), Pence himself does not dicuss it and has not yet shared his thinking or motivation at the time. Some see Pences statement as an example of how successful the Tobacco Industry's Deliberate Campain of deception was, that they were able to get a well-meaning member of Congress to spread their lies. See Quotation 644133.
Edward John Markey is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district from 1976 to 2013. Between the House and Senate, Markey has served in Congress for more than four decades. He was also a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976.
