“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.
