Earlier this week, Americans for Tax Reform submitted comments to the United States Postal Service on the importance of helping smokers trying to quit through life saving reduced risk tobacco alternatives. As we have written previously, the most vulnerable Americans with the highest smoking rates live in rural and remote areas, and without access to lifesaving tobacco alternatives through the mail, they would have no choice other than continue smoking deadly combustible tobacco.
ATR stressed that any rulemaking designed to implement the mandates of the ill thought out recently passed federal ban on on USPS carrying these products should be as precise as possible, and clarify the exemptions that were intended to be included as part of the Act.
The full testimony can be downloaded here.