Thursday, June 23, 22011
“For with man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
As I read Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Wall Street Journal article Labels Give Cigarette Packs a Ghoulish Makeover, I was numb. I had to read it a couple of times as the tears flow and said, “Thank You God.”
Six years to the day of my mother’s death, June 14, 2005 this was a victory. This is when you knew there was no turning back. The writing was on the wall. I cannot describe all the thoughts that were passing through my mind. My involvement in this came when we received my mother’s Death Certificate. When I looked at it, I could not believe what it stated, “Tobacco Abuse.” I was so grateful that the Doctor told the truth and did not cover it up. Thus began our fight to somehow make a difference.
So many people have been in this fight for many years. You could tell it was getting more intense, as more laws were being passed, more court cases were being won for families and more countries were willing to speak up about the harmful effects and the costs to their countries.
We have come this far and I still believe that one day The Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans will be passed with a stated purpose: “the tobacco industry will be held accountable for the tobacco-related diseases and will provide early screening, a health insurance benefits program and/or premium assistance for every smoker (man, woman, boy or girl) afflicted with a tobacco-related disease. They will subsidize all educational programs from elementary to college on the harmful effects of their products through smoking firsthand or secondhand smoke.”
The Food and Drug Administration now has the authority to regulate tobacco products. The fact that the cigarette makers have to add large, graphic warning labels on their cigarette packages is mandatory and they cannot hide the truth any longer. This is the beginning of real change in our health care reform initiative. We all know someone who has a tobacco-related illness and they are fighting for their life right now. Hopefully, lives will be saved and many changed because now, Americans will know the truth and the truth shall set them free.
Dr. Mike Murdock wrote about truth, "Truth is the most powerful thing on earth because it is the only thing that cannot be changed."
Thank you for allowing me to share my story with you over these past six years. I am so grateful; that my mother’s living and dying was not in vain, and maybe our testimony, somehow help made a difference. All . . .
For the Glory of God,
Valerie Foy
Email: speakingthetruth@yahoo.com
A seed for America .
P.S. Below is a copy of our first message to the Food and Drug Administration.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Commissioner
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20851-0001
RE: R. J. Reynolds
Dear U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner:
I am following up on my letter to you of August 31, 2005 in regards to R.J. Reynolds.
Can someone please advice, why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allow companies such as R.J. Reynolds and all the other cigarette companies continue to be in business? You must know that these products - cigarettes, causes long term illnesses, high medical bills and ultimately death in families?
Each year millions of people die and the fact that the government gives these companies a stamp of approval, and allow this evil to manifest itself in our society is one reason, why all these things are happening in this country. These companies are profiting through the illnesses of people, who do not know or understand the harmful effects of these cigarettes upon their life.
How many people knew that they would be addicted to this product? How many people knew if they continue to smoke cigarettes, it would cause them to have emphysema, bad lungs, a heart attack or any of the other related illnesses?
Each one of these people bodies are the temple. The temple of Whom? The temple of God . And because companies do not have a reverence or respect for God and His commandments, companies like R.J. Reynolds can continue to make cigarettes, with no concern of the after effects of their products on a person’s life.
And in the case of R.J. Reynolds, their Former CEO Mr. Bowman testified in June 1964 before Congress on behalf of R J Reynolds:-
“If it is proven that cigarettes are harmful, we want to do something about it regardless of what somebody else tells us to do. And we would do our level best. This is just being human.”
Every person that smokes their product, R.J. Reynolds and every other cigarette company should be made liable to pay for every person whose death was caused by the use of tobacco. They made this product, deceiving the public until they got hooked on these products, and then later came out with the Surgeon General’s warning of the harmful effects, after they were pressured to reveal these facts. They knew it but refuse to do the right thing. And because they refused to do the right thing, people became addicted and then the battle to stay alive by withdrawing from this drug became a battle for them, their families and the doctors to help them see what was happening to their bodies and to keep them alive.
How can the government support something that it knows will kill people? How can the government justify, that they have a right to be in business when it will cost the people their life, the government money to monitor the health industry to make sure the pharmaceutical companies keep their products at a reasonable price, and the physicians that they do not over charge Medicare or Medicaid for the medicine people have to take to stay alive (i.e. pills, oxygen tanks, inhalers, etc.). or any of other products.
What I saw happening to my mother was very hard for me to understand, she was hooked on these cigarettes and did everything to get a cigarette. When she would take her oxygen tank off to go outside to smoke in the cold of a winter month, I knew this was more serious then I could ever expect. Even though she could not drive, when she was attempting to go and drive herself to get a pack of cigarettes, I told her no. To see how defiant she was about that was unbelievable.
When they showed Johnny Carson on television, and how he too was a habitual cigarette smoker. No one can imagine how this product takes control of a person’s mind and body. There is nothing anyone can say or do, to justify these companies having a license to kill.
My mother’s doctor told us his father was 80 years old and still smoke, even though he had a heart attack and have a pace maker. He knows about all the harmful effects from his son. His response to them is, “I don’t smoke in the house. It is not hurting anyone.” Mind you, he goes outside into the field in the open air. He lives in Kentucky .
So it has no choice victim. Anyone who does not know the harmful effects will get hooked on cigarette smoking and their life will never be the same.
So I write this letter to you in hopes that the USFDA will seriously hold R.J. Reynolds and every other cigarette manufacturer liable for every death. If they are bold enough to make these products, keep raising their prices and bank on people continuing to smoke, they should be made to liable pay every claim that is submitted to them. It drug dealers are illegal, cigarettes should be made illegal. They both add nothing to the well-being of a person and society has to deal with it in more ways than one.
If R.J. Reynolds can make these products, they should be made to pay for the tragedies their products afflict on people and their families.
What they and every company like them are doing is against the Word of God. These people bodies are not their own. They get caught up in this sin because companies such as R.J. Reynolds is out for one thing, to be in the black and give their shareholders a return on their investment in the death and illness of every American that smokes their cigarettes. And if the U.S. government thinks this is right, and this evil is allowed to permeate in our society, it is wrong.
I hope and pray that this evil which has been allowed to permeate will not be allowed to destroy another life or families in this country or abroad.
Even though they may win now, but everyone such as Ms. Ivey, the Stockholders, the Managers and everyone who manufactured and promoted this will have to answer this one question, “Did you not know that your products were destroying the life that I gave each and every one of them?”
And how will the USFDA, Ms. Ivey, and all the others answer, who knows their products (tobacco) which encouraged cigarette smoking kills?
R J Reynolds may not answer my letter, but they will have to answer for all that they have done and continue to do with their legal drug to kill.
There is no excuse the USFDA, RJ Reynolds, Ms. Ivey or anyone can give.
Thank you for allowing me to share this with you.
Sincerely,
Valerie Foy
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The Tobacco Industry Should Have A Health Care Insurance Plan For Their Loyal Customers
“For with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
As many Americans know the health care bill has been repelled which was passed in 2010, because of a mandate for Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or pay a tax penalty. Many are stating this is unconstitutional and a violation of Americans rights.
The President, as well as, the elected representatives tried to make sure most Americans would have health insurance to help curb increased health care costs to families and States. The health care plan would have been an option to covered 30 million Americans (or more) that does not have health insurance now. Nevertheless, we still have a pending health care problem.
If we have 43.3 million smokers in the United States and the President is trying to insure 30 million Americans who do not have any insurance, how many of those 30 million Americans have tobacco-related diseases? How much is this going to cost the States to provide medical assistance to these Americans who have tobacco-related diseases without going to the government for assistance?
If they are not receiving medical assistance through either one of these programs Medicare of Medicaid, then they are missing out on the Master Settlement Agreement funds which were allocated to the States and those smokers should be accounted for through the Tobacco Accountability Act (TAA).
When we contacted the Governors in December 2010 and humbly submitted www.webspawner/user.com/taa2010/index.html as an alternative to meet their health care policy and funding (i.e., budgets) for their diverse residents, one reminded me of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
So we went and reviewed it. According to Wilkipedia The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) was an agreement entered into in November 1998, originally between the four largest US tobacco companies and the attorneys general of 46 states. The states settled their Medicaid lawsuits against the tobacco industry for recovery of their tobacco-related health care costs, and also exempted the companies from private tort liability regarding harm caused by tobacco use. In exchange, the companies agreed to curtail or cease certain tobacco marketing practices, as well as to pay, in perpetuity, various annual payments to the states to compensate them for some of the medical costs of caring for persons with smoking-related illnesses. The money also funds a new anti-smoking advocacy group, called the American Legacy Foundation, that is responsible for such campaigns as The Truth. The settlement also dissolved the tobacco industry groups Tobacco Institute, the Center for Indoor Air Research, and the Council for Tobacco Research. In the MSA, the OPMs (Original Participating Manufacturers) agreed to pay a minimum of $206 billion over the first twenty-five years of the agreement.
The attorneys general did not have the authority to grant all this by themselves: the Global Settlement Agreement would require an act of Congress. Senator John McCain carried the bill, which was much more aggressive than even the global settlement. However, in the spring of 1998, Congress rejected both the proposed settlement and an alternative proposal submitted by Senator John McCain of Arizona.
According to Wilkipedia Fellows within the Cato Institute, such as Robert Levy, assert that the lawsuit that brought on the tobacco settlement was instigated by a need to make beneficiary payments to Medicare recipients. Following the passage of laws that eliminated the tobacco companies' ability to provide evidence in court for their defense, the tobacco companies were forced to settle. The big four tobacco companies agreed to pay the state governments several billion dollars but the government in turn was to protect the big four tobacco companies from competition. The Master Settlement Agreement, they argue, created an unconstitutional cartel arrangement that benefited both the government and big tobacco. Robert Levy stated:
For 40 years, tobacco companies had not been held liable for cigarette-related illnesses. Then, beginning in 1994, led by Florida, states across the country sued big tobacco to recover public outlays for medical expenses due to smoking. By changing the law to guarantee they would win in court, the states extorted a quarter-trillion-dollar settlement, which was passed along in higher cigarette prices. Basically, the tobacco companies had money; the states and their hired-gun attorneys wanted money; so the companies paid and the states collected. Then sick smokers got stuck with the bill."
The tobacco industry is still not held accountable for the deaths that take place because of their product. The States have been awarded large sums of money until 2025. But during the process, people are dying. People are being afflicted with tobacco-related diseases. It was reported in Consumer Affairs, “States have cut funding for programs to reduce tobacco use by more than 15% in the past year; even as they are collecting record amounts of money from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement and tobacco taxes. These programs are to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit. Only one state North Dakota currently funds a tobacco prevention program at the level recommended by the CDC. Tobacco companies spends $20 to market tobacco products for every one dollar the States spend to fight tobacco use.” So what are they doing with the monies they receive every month for this option within the MSA? Some people do not have insurance and therefore do not receive the proper health care needed to keep them alive. Something is seriously wrong with this.
The tobacco industry is banking on people smoking and the States are too. They have the States and government in hostage of ever really holding them accountable. There is no ignoring the fact that cigarette smoke affects a smoker body, from head to toe and has a negative impact on their health. As we all know, nicotine is the addictive ingredient in cigarettes which is worst then someone being on crack. There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to kill an average adult if ingested whole. Most smokers take in only one or two milligrams of nicotine per cigarette however, with the remainder being burned off.
The States reaped large financial gains from the tobacco industry. For each State, the MSA estimated a present value per pack differential between medical costs attributed to smokers and medical costs attributed to nonsmokers. These per pack costs are then used to generate total medical costs when they are multiplied by the total number of packs sold in a state. From these total costs, each State was assigned a medical cost share.
This stands to reason; people who are afflicted with tobacco-related diseases are still not receiving the medical coverage they need. The States do not have a record of who the smokers are in their States. They are concerned with the number of packs of cigarettes sold and how much revenue they received from the increased taxes on these packs of cigarettes sold. The tobacco industry is only concern with covering the medical costs of people who are being covered on Medicaid, Medicare, or any public health program. What happens to the people who smoke and are not covered under either one of these programs?
If the states have been awarded this money based on how many packs of cigarettes are sold in their states, they should know who those smokers are. How? By mailing out a survey to every household to determine if those people are smokers, receiving Medicare and/or Medicaid, have any tobacco-related diseases or insurance. Otherwise, no one is being held accountable to those Americans in those states which have tobacco related diseases. As Assemblyman Conaway stated, “An insured population uses resources more wisely, instead of going to the emergency room and getting treatment that costs four times as much.”
We still believe there should be a Tobacco Accountability Act where the tobacco industry should be held accountable to the very people their product has addicted and afflicted. They caused the health problems and they must pay for it. It would have a stated purpose, “the tobacco industry will be held accountable for the tobacco-related diseases and will provide early screening, a health insurance benefits program and/or premium assistance for every smoker (man, woman, boy or girl) afflicted with a tobacco-related disease. They will subsidize all educational programs from elementary to college on the harmful effects of their products through smoking firsthand or secondhand smoke.”
States who receive payments from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement must forward all recorded documented deaths to the Attorney General of their states monitoring the Master Settlement Agreement for further assessment to families who has not benefited in this agreed upon settlement.”
On June 20, 1997, the Food and Drug Administration regulation would have the authority to put stronger warning labels and restrictions on advertising. The congressional proposal would have earmarked 1/3 of all funds to combat teenage smoking. No such restrictions appear in the Multistate Settlement Agreement. That was 14 years ago.
The Tobacco Control Act which was passed June 2010 requires FDA to issue final regulations requiring color graphics by June 22, 2011. It also specifies that the requirement for the new health warnings on cigarette packages and advertisements will take effect 15 months after issuance of this final rule.
Everyone is crying about, "They want a smaller government. The government is trying to be involved in people's lives, especially when it comes to their health care choices. The government wants to have a socialized health care program.” Here is an opportunity for all those who want government out of the health care business to take a "real” stand and have the ones who are causing these health care problems be held accountable.
If any State has any smokers in their State, it is just a matter of time that those tobacco-related health care costs, are going to increase their health care budgets for their constituents. Who will they be looking to help meet those expenditures when the MSA expires in 2025? The government.
Everyone knows the insurance industry charges additional fees to Americans who have pre-existing conditions, smoke, are overweight and now credit scores. In the recent health care bill passed, the insurance industry would not be able to charge additional fees for anyone who has a pre-existing condition. It would stand to reason; they would benefit the most, if the tobacco industry would insure their “loyal customers” directly with the insurance industry, just as they do with their employees. Maybe those Americans would have a better chance at fighting those tobacco-related diseases and live longer for their families with a comprehensive health insurance plan through the tobacco industry.
As we wrestle with every aspect of this health care reform initiative in America some will ask, what does The ”Tobacco Accountability Act” have to do with this? Everything! The cost factors to keep Americans with pre-existing tobacco-related diseases will bankrupt any health care reform initiative without the tobacco industry subsidy. Everyone knows this. They have targeted customers, some in bondage for life. The tobacco industry should have a health insurance benefits program for their “loyal” customers.
The only way we can address this pending health care crisis in America is to implement the 2011 Tobacco Accountability Act and the message Smoking Can Kill You on cigarette packaging and advertisements.
Otherwise, we are doing a disservice to the sanctity of life and allowing the tobacco industry to continue to manipulate the truth about its product. We are kidding ourselves when we do not address the magnitude of this habit and the health care costs to families. This is the only product on the market that when it is used as intended destroys a life and families. It kills.
One thing is certain: cigarettes snuff out life at an alarming rate. Half of all long-term smokers will die a tobacco-related death. In 2005 my mother died. When we received her Death Certificate, it stated: Cause of Death was "tobacco."
Thus began our crusade to somehow make a difference with the “Tobacco Accountability Act” for others who are just a number of total packs of cigarettes sold throughout the year, with no health insurance.
We hope that as the House Republicans continue in their pursuit to repel the passed health care bill, that they will consider this option as a health care funding alternative for Americans with tobacco-related diseases, which do not have health insurance. It’s the right thing to do, for such a time as this.
As many Americans know the health care bill has been repelled which was passed in 2010, because of a mandate for Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or pay a tax penalty. Many are stating this is unconstitutional and a violation of Americans rights.
The President, as well as, the elected representatives tried to make sure most Americans would have health insurance to help curb increased health care costs to families and States. The health care plan would have been an option to covered 30 million Americans (or more) that does not have health insurance now. Nevertheless, we still have a pending health care problem.
If we have 43.3 million smokers in the United States and the President is trying to insure 30 million Americans who do not have any insurance, how many of those 30 million Americans have tobacco-related diseases? How much is this going to cost the States to provide medical assistance to these Americans who have tobacco-related diseases without going to the government for assistance?
If they are not receiving medical assistance through either one of these programs Medicare of Medicaid, then they are missing out on the Master Settlement Agreement funds which were allocated to the States and those smokers should be accounted for through the Tobacco Accountability Act (TAA).
When we contacted the Governors in December 2010 and humbly submitted www.webspawner/user.com/taa2010/index.html as an alternative to meet their health care policy and funding (i.e., budgets) for their diverse residents, one reminded me of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
So we went and reviewed it. According to Wilkipedia The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) was an agreement entered into in November 1998, originally between the four largest US tobacco companies and the attorneys general of 46 states. The states settled their Medicaid lawsuits against the tobacco industry for recovery of their tobacco-related health care costs, and also exempted the companies from private tort liability regarding harm caused by tobacco use. In exchange, the companies agreed to curtail or cease certain tobacco marketing practices, as well as to pay, in perpetuity, various annual payments to the states to compensate them for some of the medical costs of caring for persons with smoking-related illnesses. The money also funds a new anti-smoking advocacy group, called the American Legacy Foundation, that is responsible for such campaigns as The Truth. The settlement also dissolved the tobacco industry groups Tobacco Institute, the Center for Indoor Air Research, and the Council for Tobacco Research. In the MSA, the OPMs (Original Participating Manufacturers) agreed to pay a minimum of $206 billion over the first twenty-five years of the agreement.
The attorneys general did not have the authority to grant all this by themselves: the Global Settlement Agreement would require an act of Congress. Senator John McCain carried the bill, which was much more aggressive than even the global settlement. However, in the spring of 1998, Congress rejected both the proposed settlement and an alternative proposal submitted by Senator John McCain of Arizona.
According to Wilkipedia Fellows within the Cato Institute, such as Robert Levy, assert that the lawsuit that brought on the tobacco settlement was instigated by a need to make beneficiary payments to Medicare recipients. Following the passage of laws that eliminated the tobacco companies' ability to provide evidence in court for their defense, the tobacco companies were forced to settle. The big four tobacco companies agreed to pay the state governments several billion dollars but the government in turn was to protect the big four tobacco companies from competition. The Master Settlement Agreement, they argue, created an unconstitutional cartel arrangement that benefited both the government and big tobacco. Robert Levy stated:
For 40 years, tobacco companies had not been held liable for cigarette-related illnesses. Then, beginning in 1994, led by Florida, states across the country sued big tobacco to recover public outlays for medical expenses due to smoking. By changing the law to guarantee they would win in court, the states extorted a quarter-trillion-dollar settlement, which was passed along in higher cigarette prices. Basically, the tobacco companies had money; the states and their hired-gun attorneys wanted money; so the companies paid and the states collected. Then sick smokers got stuck with the bill."
The tobacco industry is still not held accountable for the deaths that take place because of their product. The States have been awarded large sums of money until 2025. But during the process, people are dying. People are being afflicted with tobacco-related diseases. It was reported in Consumer Affairs, “States have cut funding for programs to reduce tobacco use by more than 15% in the past year; even as they are collecting record amounts of money from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement and tobacco taxes. These programs are to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit. Only one state North Dakota currently funds a tobacco prevention program at the level recommended by the CDC. Tobacco companies spends $20 to market tobacco products for every one dollar the States spend to fight tobacco use.” So what are they doing with the monies they receive every month for this option within the MSA? Some people do not have insurance and therefore do not receive the proper health care needed to keep them alive. Something is seriously wrong with this.
The tobacco industry is banking on people smoking and the States are too. They have the States and government in hostage of ever really holding them accountable. There is no ignoring the fact that cigarette smoke affects a smoker body, from head to toe and has a negative impact on their health. As we all know, nicotine is the addictive ingredient in cigarettes which is worst then someone being on crack. There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to kill an average adult if ingested whole. Most smokers take in only one or two milligrams of nicotine per cigarette however, with the remainder being burned off.
The States reaped large financial gains from the tobacco industry. For each State, the MSA estimated a present value per pack differential between medical costs attributed to smokers and medical costs attributed to nonsmokers. These per pack costs are then used to generate total medical costs when they are multiplied by the total number of packs sold in a state. From these total costs, each State was assigned a medical cost share.
This stands to reason; people who are afflicted with tobacco-related diseases are still not receiving the medical coverage they need. The States do not have a record of who the smokers are in their States. They are concerned with the number of packs of cigarettes sold and how much revenue they received from the increased taxes on these packs of cigarettes sold. The tobacco industry is only concern with covering the medical costs of people who are being covered on Medicaid, Medicare, or any public health program. What happens to the people who smoke and are not covered under either one of these programs?
If the states have been awarded this money based on how many packs of cigarettes are sold in their states, they should know who those smokers are. How? By mailing out a survey to every household to determine if those people are smokers, receiving Medicare and/or Medicaid, have any tobacco-related diseases or insurance. Otherwise, no one is being held accountable to those Americans in those states which have tobacco related diseases. As Assemblyman Conaway stated, “An insured population uses resources more wisely, instead of going to the emergency room and getting treatment that costs four times as much.”
We still believe there should be a Tobacco Accountability Act where the tobacco industry should be held accountable to the very people their product has addicted and afflicted. They caused the health problems and they must pay for it. It would have a stated purpose, “the tobacco industry will be held accountable for the tobacco-related diseases and will provide early screening, a health insurance benefits program and/or premium assistance for every smoker (man, woman, boy or girl) afflicted with a tobacco-related disease. They will subsidize all educational programs from elementary to college on the harmful effects of their products through smoking firsthand or secondhand smoke.”
States who receive payments from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement must forward all recorded documented deaths to the Attorney General of their states monitoring the Master Settlement Agreement for further assessment to families who has not benefited in this agreed upon settlement.”
On June 20, 1997, the Food and Drug Administration regulation would have the authority to put stronger warning labels and restrictions on advertising. The congressional proposal would have earmarked 1/3 of all funds to combat teenage smoking. No such restrictions appear in the Multistate Settlement Agreement. That was 14 years ago.
The Tobacco Control Act which was passed June 2010 requires FDA to issue final regulations requiring color graphics by June 22, 2011. It also specifies that the requirement for the new health warnings on cigarette packages and advertisements will take effect 15 months after issuance of this final rule.
Everyone is crying about, "They want a smaller government. The government is trying to be involved in people's lives, especially when it comes to their health care choices. The government wants to have a socialized health care program.” Here is an opportunity for all those who want government out of the health care business to take a "real” stand and have the ones who are causing these health care problems be held accountable.
If any State has any smokers in their State, it is just a matter of time that those tobacco-related health care costs, are going to increase their health care budgets for their constituents. Who will they be looking to help meet those expenditures when the MSA expires in 2025? The government.
Everyone knows the insurance industry charges additional fees to Americans who have pre-existing conditions, smoke, are overweight and now credit scores. In the recent health care bill passed, the insurance industry would not be able to charge additional fees for anyone who has a pre-existing condition. It would stand to reason; they would benefit the most, if the tobacco industry would insure their “loyal customers” directly with the insurance industry, just as they do with their employees. Maybe those Americans would have a better chance at fighting those tobacco-related diseases and live longer for their families with a comprehensive health insurance plan through the tobacco industry.
As we wrestle with every aspect of this health care reform initiative in America some will ask, what does The ”Tobacco Accountability Act” have to do with this? Everything! The cost factors to keep Americans with pre-existing tobacco-related diseases will bankrupt any health care reform initiative without the tobacco industry subsidy. Everyone knows this. They have targeted customers, some in bondage for life. The tobacco industry should have a health insurance benefits program for their “loyal” customers.
The only way we can address this pending health care crisis in America is to implement the 2011 Tobacco Accountability Act and the message Smoking Can Kill You on cigarette packaging and advertisements.
Otherwise, we are doing a disservice to the sanctity of life and allowing the tobacco industry to continue to manipulate the truth about its product. We are kidding ourselves when we do not address the magnitude of this habit and the health care costs to families. This is the only product on the market that when it is used as intended destroys a life and families. It kills.
One thing is certain: cigarettes snuff out life at an alarming rate. Half of all long-term smokers will die a tobacco-related death. In 2005 my mother died. When we received her Death Certificate, it stated: Cause of Death was "tobacco."
Thus began our crusade to somehow make a difference with the “Tobacco Accountability Act” for others who are just a number of total packs of cigarettes sold throughout the year, with no health insurance.
We hope that as the House Republicans continue in their pursuit to repel the passed health care bill, that they will consider this option as a health care funding alternative for Americans with tobacco-related diseases, which do not have health insurance. It’s the right thing to do, for such a time as this.
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