Senator Wyden on the TPP Tobacco Carveout
“I pushed very, very, very aggressively for that tobacco provision to be part of this,” Wyden told POLITICO about the carveout that protects tobacco control-related policies from being challenged in investor-state cases. “I have watched the tobacco companies over the years particularly focus on global markets where they can, in effect, get kids addicted at an early age, and so I feel very strongly about that provision. I worked very hard for it.”
I wonder what Senator Wyden would have thought of a general exceptions clause -- which would provide a defense for all public health measures and measures for other policy purposes -- instead of a carveout that applies only to tobacco control measures.