In I Corinthians 6:19-20, the Apostle Paul wrote to Christians, "Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? For you were bought with a price: Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit which are God's" . How can one created in the image of God, fight these addictive chemicals? The list of 599 additives approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see. Submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this list of ingredients had long been kept a secret. Tobacco companies reporting this information were: American Tobacco Company Brown and Williamson Liggett Group, Inc. Philip Morris Inc. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Cigarettes offer people only a multitude of smoking-related diseases and ultimately death. The List of 599 Additives in Cigarettes • Acetanisole2 • Acetic Acid3 • Acetoin4 • Acetophenone5 • 6-Acetoxydihydrotheaspirane6 • 2-Acetyl-3- Ethylpyrazine7 • 2-Acetyl-5-Methylfuran8 • Acetylpyrazine9 • 2-Acetylpyridine10 • 3-Acetylpyridine11 • 2-Acetylthiazole12 • Aconitic Acid13 • dl-Alanine14 • Alfalfa Extract15 • Allspice Extract,Oleoresin, and Oil16 • Allyl Hexanoate17 • Allyl Ionone18 • Almond Bitter Oil19 • Ambergris Tincture20 • Ammonia21 • Ammonium Bicarbonate22 • Ammonium Hydroxide23 • Ammonium Phosphate Dibasic24 • Ammonium Sulfide25 • Amyl Alcohol26 • Amyl Butyrate27 • Amyl Formate • Amyl Octanoate • alpha-Amylcinnamaldehyde • Amyris Oil • trans-Anethole • Angelica Root Extract, Oil and Seed Oil • Anise • Anise Star, Extract and Oils • Anisyl Acetate • Anisyl Alcohol • Anisyl Formate • Anisyl Phenylacetate • Apple Juice Concentrate, Extract, and Skins • Apricot Extract and Juice Concentrate • 1-Arginine • Asafetida Fluid Extract And Oil • Ascorbic Acid • 1-Asparagine Monohydrate • 1-Aspartic Acid • Balsam Peru and Oil • Basil Oil • Bay Leaf, Oil and Sweet Oil • Beeswax White • Beet Juice Concentrate • Benzaldehyde • Benzaldehyde Glyceryl Acetal • Benzoic Acid, Benzoin • Benzoin Resin • Benzophenone • Benzyl Alcohol • Benzyl Benzoate • Benzyl Butyrate • Benzyl Cinnamate • Benzyl Propionate • Benzyl Salicylate • Bergamot Oil • Bisabolene • Black Currant Buds Absolute • Borneol • Bornyl Acetate • Buchu Leaf Oil • 1,3-Butanediol • 2,3-Butanedione • 1-Butanol • 2-Butanone • 4(2-Butenylidene)-3,5,5-Trimethyl-2-Cyclohexen-1-One • Butter, Butter Esters, and Butter Oil • Butyl Acetate • Butyl Butyrate • Butyl Butyryl Lactate • Butyl Isovalerate • Butyl Phenylacetate • Butyl Undecylenate • 3-Butylidenephthalide • Butyric Acid] • Cadinene • Caffeine • Calcium Carbonate • Camphene • Cananga Oil • Capsicum Oleoresin • Caramel Color • Caraway Oil • Carbon Dioxide • Cardamom Oleoresin, Extract, Seed Oil, and Powder • Carob Bean and Extract • beta-Carotene • Carrot Oil • Carvacrol • 4-Carvomenthenol • 1-Carvone • beta-Caryophyllene • beta-Caryophyllene Oxide • Cascarilla Oil and Bark Extract • Cassia Bark Oil • Cassie Absolute and Oil • Castoreum Extract, Tincture and Absolute • Cedar Leaf Oil • Cedarwood Oil Terpenes and Virginiana • Cedrol • Celery Seed Extract, Solid, Oil, And Oleoresin • Cellulose Fiber • Chamomile Flower Oil And Extract • Chicory Extract • Chocolate • Cinnamaldehyde • Cinnamic Acid • Cinnamon Leaf Oil, Bark Oil, and Extract • Cinnamyl Acetate • Cinnamyl Alcohol • Cinnamyl Cinnamate • Cinnamyl Isovalerate • Cinnamyl Propionate • Citral • Citric Acid • Citronella Oil • dl-Citronellol • Citronellyl Butyrate • itronellyl Isobutyrate • Civet Absolute • Clary Oil • Clover Tops, Red Solid Extract • Cocoa • Cocoa Shells, Extract, Distillate And Powder • Coconut Oil • Coffee • Cognac White and Green Oil • Copaiba Oil • Coriander Extract and Oil • Corn Oil • Corn Silk • Costus Root Oil • Cubeb Oil • Cuminaldehyde • para-Cymene • 1-Cysteine A seed for America.

The Tobacco Industry Should Have A Health Care Insurance Plan For Their Loyal Customers We still believe there should be a Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans 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 should 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.” This is the only way the government, states and companies can keep their health care costs down for Americans with tobacco-related illnesses with the passing of The Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans. Otherwise, these health care costs will exacerbate the government, states and companies budgets especially when different parties in this country are calling to cut benefits to people receiving Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security benefits and not raise taxes to reduce our deficit. Some has gone as far as having the courts determine the current health care plan unconstitutional. Will the courts in their pursuit for justice, have the courage to help set a precedent and look at an industry that has been shielded all these years, as people become hooked on this drug? We fight to keep the drug cartel from infiltrating our country with illegal drugs, but yet we make excuses for an industry that has killed millions of Americans for the sake of the dollar for years. As we wrestle with every aspect of this health care reform initiative in America some will ask, what does The Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans 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 Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans 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. Below are some additional facts to consider: Health Council.Org/Break Free Alliance Facts Across the board, the greatest single predictor of tobacco use is low socioeconomic status (SES). According to the Surgeon General:  Individuals with less than 12 years of education and income at or below the federal poverty guidelines have higher smoking rates.  Education levels and income may directly affect the health status of individuals.  Poor racial and ethnic communities bear the heaviest health burden related to tobacco use.  Socioeconomic characteristics are powerful determinants of health. Tobacco and Poverty  In 2003, Whites accounted for .44.3% of all poor, although they composed 67.6% of the U.S. population  Thus, most poor people in the U.S. are minorities. Who Are The Poor Smokers?  Poverty o Income (fall below a $ threshold) o Gender (female headed households) o Race/Ethnicity (black, white, etc) o Education (less than high school) o Marital status (widows) o Labor force status (unemployed, discouraged) o Health status (poor health) High Smoking Prevalence  Prisoners  The Homeless  Mentally Ill  Individuals in Alcohol/Drug Treatment  Persons with Disabilities Centers for Disease Control and Prevention These are additional facts:  Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year.  Current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030.  In the United States, cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually, or about 443,000 deaths per year  Annually, cigarette smoking costs more than $193 billion ($97 billion in loss productivity and $96 billion in health care expenditures).  Health care costs associated with exposure to secondhand smoke average $10 billion annually.  In 2005, the latest year with available data, the cigarette industry spent almost $13.4 billion, or more than $36 million per day, on advertising and promotional expenses.  In the United States, 20% of high school students are current cigarette smokers.  Each day, about 1,100 persons younger than 18 years of age become regular smokers; that is, they begin smoking on a daily basis.  Among adult smokers, 70% report that they want to quit completely, and more than 40% try to quit each year.  Tobacco is a risk factor for six of the eight leading causes of death in the world.  As reported in the Charlotte Observer, “we have 43.3 million smokers in America.”  As well as, “it costs the Defense Department more than $1.6 billion a year in medical care and lost work days, while the Veterans Administration spends more than $5 billion to treat veterans for tobacco-related illnesses.”  The Center for Immigration Studies estimated costs to cover all uninsured illegal immigrants would be $30.5 billion annually and at emergency rooms/free clinics $4.3 billion. Jet Magazine According to the August 2011 edition:  “Smokers of menthol cigarettes could one day have their habit extinguished by the Food and Drug Administration. The agency is evaluating recommendations from an advisory panel that might lend to a ban of the smokes the only remaining flavored cigarettes in the market.  This would bring major changes to the habits of African-Americans, nearly 80 percent of who smoke menthol cigarettes.  The top menthol brands are: Newport – No 1 menthol market and among Blacks (51% of buyers) Generating 5B yearly. Marlboro Menthol – holds 18% of menthol market Camel Menthol – Maker holds 8% of overall cigarette market. Kool – Third largest menthol brand. Salem – 18% if makers of menthol sales are to Blacks. Other Facts  The American Cancer Society estimated in 2002 65,700 women would die from lung cancer compared to 39,600 women who would die from breast cancer.  Cigarette smoking causes lung and other cancers emphysema and heart disease. More than 0,000 deaths each year are caused by cigarette smoking. But smoking also affects nearly every other organ system and disease in a negative way.  The Environmental Protection Agency has listed passive cigarette smoke also known as second-hand smoke as a carcinogen and has determined that it causes 3,000 cases of lung cancer every year.  Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. Smoking is the major cause of stroke and the third, leading cause of death in the United States.  A number of studies have shown that women find it more difficult than do men to quit smoking cigarettes.  Nearly 90% of lung cancer cases are smoking related. 23 million female smokers, the news keep getting worse.  Researchers are finding that the effects of tobacco seem to be far more damaging to women than to men. Last year, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh discovered that a gene that accelerates lung cancer growth is more active in females, even when they smoke fewer cigarettes over a shorter period of time than men. These are some of additional facts according to published reports:  12,000 women die of COPD every year and this year it is likely to overtake breast cancer to become the forth biggest cause of death of women, Nine out of ten cases of COPD are related to smoking. Whereas the number of men smoking has leveled out, it is increasing steadily in women little surprise; therefore that the prevalence of COPD is growing nearly three times faster in women (UK).  COPD is the forth leading cause of death in the United States. COPD is a lung condition that makes it more and more difficult to breathe. Both chronic bronchitis and emphysema are considered part of COPD.  Tobacco smoke causes approximately 80% to 90% of all cases of COPD. In fact, a smoker is 10 times more likely to die of COPD than a nonsmoker.  Experts believe that about 10 million Americans have been diagnosed with COPD.  Few women realize that if they are smokers, they are more likely to develop chronic bronchitis and emphysema than male smokers. Once developed, it is likely to be worse than for men because women’s pulmonary tissues are more sensitive and women won’t have to smoke cigarettes for as long as before developing COPD’s classic symptoms of breathlessness chest tightness, cough, wheezing and tiredness. (This is what my mother suffered with.)  According to the American Diabetes Foundation, people who smoke are nearly three times likely develop diabetes as those who have never smoked.  Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women in the United States. Cigarette smoking is the primary cause of lung cancer and approximately 22 million women in the United States smoke. Between 1930 and 1997 the number of lung cancer deaths in women in the United States has increased by 600%. Most of the deaths can be attributed to any increase in cigarette smoking in women  While more men than women still get the disease (more men smoke). , the figures for women are alarming. Since 1950, according to a 2001 U.S. Surgeon General report, lung cancer mortality rates in women soared 600%. A phenomenon the U.S. Surgeon labels full-blown epidemic.  An estimated 20% of adult U.S. women aged 18 years or older (more than one of five) are currently cigarette smokers. Nearly 10% of them want to quit, but they need help. Many years ago, glamorized advertising linked women’s liberation with smoking, such as “You’ve come a long way Baby.” “Times have changed for the better and it’s time for us women to take more control of our lives,” says Linda Sevedin, Executive Director of Smoke Free Society.  More Hispanic women are smoking cigarettes in the United States than they do in their native counties, most likely due to cultural influences. Similar smoking increases are not seen in Hispanic men according to new systemic review of studies.” December 2009 A seed for America.

Justice Is Going To Be Done For My Mother Whose Cause of Death On June 14, 2005 Was Tobacco

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 Ms. Susan Cameron Reynolds American Inc. 401 N Main Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 RE: “Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, behold I am the LORD, the God of flesh; is there anything too hard for me?” Jeremiah 32:26-28 Dear Ms. Cameron: It was good to read that in June 2015, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company brands Winston, Salem and Kool were sold to Imperial Tobacco Group, and Reynolds American Inc. acquired Lorillard Inc. with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company becoming the manufacturer of Newport. In February 2015, I had a brain aneurysm. The risk factors that doctors and researchers believe contribute to the formation of brain aneurysms is smoking. I did not smoke, but I was around my family; whom my mother and father smoked Winston, my sisters and brother smoke Kool and Newport. Especially, after any holiday gathering (i.e., Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, July 4th etc.,) out came the cigarettes and lighters. I at the time did not know that secondhand smoke was just as bad for one’s health. Nevertheless, through God’s grace, mercy and love, I am here one more day. You have sold everything to focus on the main brand that your company will manufacture. You have targeted to people of color and they are the largest customers of this product – Newport. It is bad enough your company did not care about the harmful effect of its products, but you have no guilt in selling those products (Winston, Salem and Kool) to get to a populous of people that you can see a projected profit with Newport. It is all about the profits for your shareholders. It reminds me of slavery and the slave trade. I write this letter to you for the sake of my family, for the loss of my mother, as she had to battle in her las years, the abuse of tobacco on her body, mind and soul. She never knew how this product would have made her an addict. The Surgeon General warning messages did not appear on the various tobacco products until 1966, when she had already become addicted to the nicotine. For some, it was too late. Ms. Cameron, all I am asking you in the name that is above every name, is to honor my request that I wrote to you in the attached letters. Some people like to go to the courts. find that law firm, to keep them from doing the right thing. I too have gone to the Highest Court in America and throughout the world. I am not losing hope. Man can never manipulate it, no matter how they have their Executive Assistants, their high priced attorneys guard this travesty of justice against the poor and people of color. You don’t see their pain, what it does to families or even care about their health condition or costs. All you know is that . . . you want to be #1. You have and will sell your soul to be #1 at a cost . . . at a price that far outweighs your profit margin every quarter, because lives are at stake. You may sit around Thanksgiving day dinner talking about how good you did this year and how you are positioned in the world as a top tobacco manufacturer. Yet, you never really see the faces of those families, your products enslaved and manufactured by the ingredients in the products you sell. You don’t know or even understand those lives that where changed forever, because Mama and Grandma are no longer here. You too may after that Thanksgiving dinner light up your cigarette and even count the cost of those lives, as they become addicted and some begin to suffer with tobacco-related illnesses first-hand, and others through second-hand smoke. There is nothing too hard for my God. Noting. Just as He did it with David against Goliath, He will do it for the sake of my mother and father. The God I serve is all powerful. He is the one that created the whole heaven and earth; the clouds, the birds, fish, seasons, human beings etc., so nothing is too difficult for Him. I am submitting this personal letter to you on behalf of my mother, Theresa Arlene Wilson and for all that she had to endure in the last years of her life on this earth. The Doctors cannot lie and this Death Certificate speaks the truth. One way or another, justice is going to be done for my mother and so many others who were and are maliciously targeted for corporate and personal gain in America and throughout the world. For the Glory of God, Valerie Foy

Justice Is Going To Be Done For My Mother Whose Cause of Death On June 14, 2005 Was Tobacco

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 Ms. Susan Cameron Reynolds American Inc. 401 N Main Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 RE: “Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, behold I am the LORD, the God of flesh; is there anything too hard for me?” Jeremiah 32:26-28 Dear Ms. Cameron: It was good to read that in June 2015, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company brands Winston, Salem and Kool were sold to Imperial Tobacco Group, and Reynolds American Inc. acquired Lorillard Inc. with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company becoming the manufacturer of Newport. In February 2015, I had a brain aneurysm. The risk factors that doctors and researchers believe contribute to the formation of brain aneurysms is smoking. I did not smoke, but I was around my family; whom my mother and father smoked Winston, my sisters and brother smoke Kool and Newport. Especially, after any holiday gathering (i.e., Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, July 4th etc.,) out came the cigarettes and lighters. I at the time did not know that secondhand smoke was just as bad for one’s health. Nevertheless, through God’s grace, mercy and love, I am here one more day. You have sold everything to focus on the main brand that your company will manufacture. You have targeted to people of color and they are the largest customers of this product – Newport. It is bad enough your company did not care about the harmful effect of its products, but you have no guilt in selling those products (Winston, Salem and Kool) to get to a populous of people that you can see a projected profit with Newport. It is all about the profits for your shareholders. It reminds me of slavery and the slave trade. I write this letter to you for the sake of my family, for the loss of my mother, as she had to battle in her las years, the abuse of tobacco on her body, mind and soul. She never knew how this product would have made her an addict. The Surgeon General warning messages did not appear on the various tobacco products until 1966, when she had already become addicted to the nicotine. For some, it was too late. Ms. Cameron, all I am asking you in the name that is above every name, is to honor my request that I wrote to you in the attached letters. Some people like to go to the courts. find that law firm, to keep them from doing the right thing. I too have gone to the Highest Court in America and throughout the world. I am not losing hope. Man can never manipulate it, no matter how they have their Executive Assistants, their high priced attorneys guard this travesty of justice against the poor and people of color. You don’t see their pain, what it does to families or even care about their health condition or costs. All you know is that . . . you want to be #1. You have and will sell your soul to be #1 at a cost . . . at a price that far outweighs your profit margin every quarter, because lives are at stake. You may sit around Thanksgiving day dinner talking about how good you did this year and how you are positioned in the world as a top tobacco manufacturer. Yet, you never really see the faces of those families, your products enslaved and manufactured by the ingredients in the products you sell. You don’t know or even understand those lives that where changed forever, because Mama and Grandma are no longer here. You too may after that Thanksgiving dinner light up your cigarette and even count the cost of those lives, as they become addicted and some begin to suffer with tobacco-related illnesses first-hand, and others through second-hand smoke. There is nothing too hard for my God. Noting. Just as He did it with David against Goliath, He will do it for the sake of my mother and father. The God I serve is all powerful. He is the one that created the whole heaven and earth; the clouds, the birds, fish, seasons, human beings etc., so nothing is too difficult for Him. I am submitting this personal letter to you on behalf of my mother, Theresa Arlene Wilson and for all that she had to endure in the last years of her life on this earth. The Doctors cannot lie and this Death Certificate speaks the truth. One way or another, justice is going to be done for my mother and so many others who were and are maliciously targeted for corporate and personal gain in America and throughout the world. For the Glory of God, Valerie Foy

The Power of One

Letter to CVS . . . . . . Thursday, June 12, 2014 Dear Mr. Merlo: RE: For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world our faith. 1 John 5:4 First and foremost when I heard and read that CVS Caremark will no longer sell tobacco products in their stores, I said “Praise the Lord, we got the victory once again!” I never thought when I wrote to you and others on June 23, 2011, three years later, your company would have made such a bold and powerful change in its operations. (See attached.) I know by now people consider this old news, but for me on the anniversary of my mother’s death (June 14, 2005), I thought about how we still have a battle in America to save our youth against the enemy of so many Americans . . . tobacco. Needless to say, we all know the facts about tobacco. Unfortunately, cigarette smoking still tops the list as the most preventable cause of death in the United States today, accounting for 480,000 deaths annually. It attributed at least $289 billion in annual costs from smoking, including $150 billion for loss productivity and $130 billion in medical care. Cigarette smoking is addictive because of the nicotine which is a colorless, poisonous1 chemical, derived from the tobacco plant. It kills slowly but surely. I saw with my mother and with several other people, especially the ones who stopped smoking for many years, but in the end, it was smoking tobacco which took a toll on their life. The tobacco industry does not see this. They do not see a person who at one time was a normal size person, able to walk and talk and live life as a normal human being until the toll of tobacco wreak havoc on their bodies. They become vegetables. They are now skin and bones. They have to eat and breathe through a tube especially the ones who are hospitalized. When you first start going to the hospital they are holding on. Then they begin to dwindle away. They become skin and bones and you do everything you can to keep them comfortable. No one knows how a product could destroy the life of someone, until they see it for themselves. You cry out to God, “have mercy” because you know they have come to the end of life’s journey. You remember all the good times you spent with them, and even in that small window of time, you both laugh and reminisce about “once upon a time, do you remember when . . .” Mr. Merlo, it took the power of one to decide to remove this product from CVS Caremark’s 7,600 stores by October 1, 2014. You have taken a stand to help save the lives of Americans. It’s one thing to say we are on the corner of “happy and healthy” when in essence one is no more concerned about their customers’ health, but the Return on Investment to their investors. Even though your decision to stop selling tobacco products is no big deal to Big Tobacco, just imagine, if all the other companies who sell this product would take a stand for America and help keep Americans healthy, how truly blessed America will be in our health, productivity, corporate and personal budgets. As we come to a turning point in our fight against the health care costs to Americans, we still believe there should be a Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans where the tobacco industry should be held accountable to the very people their product has addicted and afflicted. This is the only way the government, states and companies can keep their health care costs down for Americans with tobacco-related illnesses with the passing of The Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans this year. Otherwise, these health care costs will exacerbate the government, states, company’s budgets and families. We still believe that one day soon our Elected Representatives will take a stand for Americans with tobacco related illnesses and pass The Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans” with its stated purpose, “The tobacco industry will be held accountable for the tobacco-related illnesses 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 illnesses, as well as, provide long term care benefits assistance for all tobacco related illnesses. They will subsidize all educational programs from elementary to college on the harmful effects of their products through smoking firsthand or secondhand smoke.” 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 every entity (i.e., families, businesses, States and government). This is the only product on the market that when it is used as intended destroys a life and families. It kills. As we continue to wrestle with every aspect of this health care reform in America some will ask, what does “The Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans” have to do with this? Everything! The cost factors to keep Americans with pre-existing tobacco-related illnesses will bankrupt any health care reform initiative without the tobacco industry subsidy. Everyone knows this. They have targeted customers, some in bondage for life in America. There is one young lady who has smoked Kool 100’s for 44 years. She started at the age of 13, not knowing she was going to be addicted to this product. “She smokes 21 cigarettes, a pack a day and sometimes 2. She says, “She smokes because it’s a relief from what you have to deal with. I am relaxing.” Of course her Doctor has told her, she must stop smoking. He has diagnosed her with Bronchitis and she has to breathe through a machine.. I am just a voice in the wilderness praying that we will finally address the real cause of our health care costs in America and its pending crisis and finally pass The Tobacco Accountability Act for Americans. Mr. Merlo, thank you for taking a stand for Americans and allowing me to share this with you. . God bless you. For the Glory of God, Valerie Foy Email: speakingthetruth@yahoo.com www.tobaccoaccounabilityact.blogspot.com/ www.webspawner/user.com/taa2010/index.html. A seed for America. cc: Mr. C. Douglas McMillion, CEO Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Mr. Gregory Wasson, CEO Walgreen Co. Mr. John T. Standley, CEO Rite Aid Corporation

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

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.