We Have The Victory!

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