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Al Gore: At the 1996 Democratic convention, pledged to 'pour my heart and soul into the cause of protecting our children from the dangers of smoking' after his sister's 1984 death from lung cancer; reporting afterward established that he had continued to receive an annual lease payment from his tobacco property for a few years after her death, that his parents grew tobacco on the family farm for several years after it, and that he accepted $9,990 from tobacco-industry political action committees between 1985 and 1990.
Statement · August 1996
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- At the 1996 Democratic convention, pledged to 'pour my heart and soul into the cause of protecting our children from the dangers of smoking' after his sister's 1984 death from lung cancer; reporting afterward established that he had continued to receive an annual lease payment from his tobacco property for a few years after her death, that his parents grew tobacco on the family farm for several years after it, and that he accepted $9,990 from tobacco-industry political action committees between 1985 and 1990.
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