The Seneca Nation has asked President Barack Obama to veto the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act.

The bill prohibits the U.S. Postal Service from delivering cigarettes and certain tobacco products, effectively killing the tribal tobacco industry. It effectively kills the tribal tobacco industry.

“If signed into law, the PACT Act will seriously impact the Seneca Nation and the Seneca people,” President Barry E. Snyder Sr. said in a letter to Obama, The Buffalo News reported. “We will be subject to racial profiling for the simple act of mailing a package. We will lose thousands of jobs and important health care support. And most damaging, we will be set back in our journey to self-determination by the very treaty partner that pledged to support and protect us.”

Obama is expected to sign the bill, the paper said.

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In letter to Obama, Snyder urges a veto on PACT Act (The Buffalo News 3/19)

Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act.
H.R.1676 | S.1147

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