Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has sponsored HB 2528, which gives the Oregon Health Authority extraordinary added powers. This is not the first time she has tried to make an empire out of OHA. This time her impetus comes from big pharma. She wants OHA to regulate any nicotine product including the power to outright ban any nicotine product they dislike without a vote of the people or without a vote of our elected representatives.

Under HB 2528, unelected OHA officials could ban vaping/cigarettes at a whim and effectively destroy a hundred local small family businesses losing an estimated $176 million of health care tax dollars from the current tobacco tax. This is a new way for politicians to outsource both power and decision making to unelected agencies in violation of the U.S. Supreme Court Chevron decision.

The big pharma lobby will benefit from this bill. Why would they want to ban nicotine, an addictive habit – because it is not addictive, and a proven aid to prevent the next covid or bird-flu pandemic. It is the man-made pyrazine chemicals added to nicotine that creates the addiction, the same chemicals they add to air fresheners, and many unhealthy foods that has made Americans overweight.

In 1970, the Harvard Medical School wrote Congress to ban pyrazine. Instead, they did the opposite and allowed it to be added to junk food. Nicotine has health properties that protects you from many viruses including covid - that's why smokers, without complications, didn’t get covid. When covid broke out, a French researcher published a medical paper for countries to distribute nicotine to cure covid. Instead, they did the opposite. Nicotine is in most vegetables we eat daily - eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes, all night-shade vegetables.

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The economic benefit to the lie is serving big pharma, a significant donor to legislators. Nicotine is a preventive agent and cure for multiple sorosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, arthurites, stypsis, diabetes, dissolve brain tumors and cancer, and calm ADHD in children. (Search Dr. Bryan Ardis Show on nicotine for all his research.)

Oregon Citizens Lobby provides alerts on bills of public interest, and provides links to write testimony. A public hearing is scheduled for Thursday. A War Room is held every Thursday, 8:30am to 3pm at Ike Box (one block from the capitol) with training and visits from legislators.


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2025-03-10 17:37:25

Last Update: 2025-03-10 23:59:46