Graves, president of the CMD Board and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice during the Clinton Administration, added, " But even I didn't know that his business involved filters for vaping with Altria's JUUL. I suppose [it's] unsurprising that Koch has financial ties to Big Tobacco since his political operations like Citizens for a Sound Economy/ Americans for Prosperity (AFP) have long relied on funding from the carcinogenic industry profiting from tobacco." ALEC and AFP have served as front groups for the tobacco industry in a number of state policy battles over the past two decades, including opposing increases to cigarette taxes and smoke-free workplace and plain packaging requirements, promoting smokeless tobacco, and pushing preemption laws that prevent local governments from more strongly regulating tobacco products.