After receiving an invitation from the White House, former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods will attend a Rose Garden signing ceremony on Monday.
President Barack Obama is set to sign into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Approved by Congress earlier this month, it increases federal regulation of tobacco products and imposes new restrictions on tobacco advertising.
"I'm honored President Obama offered me a chance to attend this important bill signing ceremony," Woods said. "For too long tobacco companies have used deceptive practices in producing and marketing cigarettes. It was a long, hard battle against Big Tobacco, but I think this is the final victory. This bill finally enacts the reforms we negotiated in 1996 and will be an important tool in the fight to regulate tobacco products and advertising."
Woods received the invitation because of his work against the tobacco companies throughout the years. As AZ Attorney General, Woods was one of the architects of the states’ historic lawsuit against major tobacco companies in the 1990s that negotiated a 246-billion dollar settlement.
Woods plans to twitter during his visit at
http://twitter.com/GrantWoods.
