Antis suddenly become Rehab Experts

[Lady Python]

This is a bit naughty of me as I've copied from another forum but it may go a long way to explain things.

Think Michael Bloomberg is a run-of-the-mill tobacco bigot? Think again!

This multi-millionaire and current Mayor of NYC has BOUGHT his own anti-tobacco "educational" network with a $125 Million dollar grant. (Nice tax shelter, Mikey!)

Having made a huge grant to Johns Hopkins University, they run a "school" to spread "anti" propaganda across the world. (Wonder if Bloomie gets an "international" tax break for this too??)

Among the paid staff (see "experts" tab) are these two carpetbaggers -

MATT MYERS of Tobacco Free Kids (supposedly "thwarts" INDUSTRY tactics. What tactics??? Big T signed away its right to organize with the MSA!). Tobacco Free Kids, as most of us know, is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's tax shelter for pushing NICO REPLACEMENT products made by Johnson & Johnson!; He's a JD, which means he's a LAWYER, not a Doctor!

AND

Jonathan Samet, Bloomie's "Strategic Communications" planner
(read: Director of Propaganda);
whose former job it was to "oversee" the scientific evidence of the Surgeon General's Reports.


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Matt Myers, JD
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Matt Myers currently serves as president and CEO of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, an organization that focuses attention on curtailing youth tobacco use. Instrumental in establishing the organization he has been with the Campaign since its creation in 1996. In addition, Mr. Myers played an integral role in settling suits brought against Liggett Tobacco Company and in crafting domestic tobacco control policy. He has been awarded the Harvard School of Public Health’s highest honor, the Julius B. Richmond award, for his work on reducing the tobacco industry’s ability to market to children. As president of the Campaign, he focuses on decreasing the the tobacco industry’s influence over children and countering tobacco industry actions.


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Jonathan Samet, MD, MS
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Samet chairs the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control. His research has addressed the effects of inhaled pollutants in the general environment and in the workplace. Dr. Samet is trained as a clinician in the specialty of internal medicine and in the subspecialty of pulmonary diseases. From 1978 through 1994, he was a member of the Department of Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine where he was professor and chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division. He has written widely on the health effects of active and passive smoking and served as consultant editor and senior scientific editor for Reports of the Surgeon General on Smoking and Health. He is the recipient of the 2004 Prince Mahidol Award for public health and the Surgeon General's medal in 1999 and 2006.

Nasty Very nasty and underhand

[Kit]

very very naughty !

[Lady Python]

Who? Me or Bloomie???

but it does throw a bit of light on things.

[leaford]

Sorry, LP, I fail to see anything nasty or underhanded. We may disagree with their views, but it's neither nasty nor underhanded to set up a foundation to promote them. Or to hire experts with proven work in the field. It's what I would do if I had a cause and millions of dollars to promote it with.