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House District 32
Full Questionnaire text can be found here. All answers are verbatim with the exception that explanations that started with a lower case letter were capitalized.
Question 1: Do you support legislation that would create a strong fully funded, comprehensive tobacco retail licensing system in Michigan that includes strong enforcement and penalties on violators?
Martin Church: No. We already have these laws in place lets enforce them before creating a new organization
Jimmie Wilson Jr. : Did Not Respond
Question 2- Do you support simplifying the taxation rate to a uniform rate of 32% that covers all tobacco products?
Martin Church: Yes. 32% maybe too much but lets tax it at the same rate as alcohol.
Question 3- Do you support legislation that would reduce or eliminate ineffective Purchase, Use and Possession laws?
Martin Church: No. If the laws are not enforced, how do we know it won't work. and with the legalization of pot, what good will it do.
Jimmie Wilson Jr. : Did Not Respond
Question 4- Do you support increasing Michigan's annual expenditures for cessation and prevention services to a minimum of $10 million annually to support the two-thirds (68%) of people who currently smoke and would like to quit?
Martin Church: No. Why don't we address the problem a different way the method we have been using has not worked.
Question 5- Do you support recognizing Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialists as a profession for Medicaid billing?
Martin Church: No. More government won't change the facts
Question 6- Do you support giving pharmacists the authority to prescribe all seven tobacco cessation medications?
Martin Church: No. Physicians prescribe with full medical. Pharmacists fill and are checks to the physicans.