New Surgeon General Report on Smoking to be released at White House webinar tomorrow AM

[Bill Godshall]

Stan Glantz forwarded the following e-mail, and said that he'd be attending tomorrow's webinar press conference at the White House. I won't be surprised if e-cigs are demonized, especially if/when the news media ask questions.


From: INFO2014SGR50 (CDC) [mailto:INFO2014SGR50@cdc.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:16 PM
Subject: Please Help Promote the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General’s Report – Information You Need





Dear Colleague:

We are pleased to announce that the press conference to release the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General’s Report: The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress has been moved to The White House and will now take place on Friday, January 17th at 9:30 a.m. EST.

The event will be Webcast live at The White House
We want to make you aware of a new video and social media resources that have been added to the Surgeon General’s Web site which you can use to help promote the 50^th anniversary of the first Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health.

The video features Tips ad participants Terrie Hall, Brandon Carmichael and Roosevelt Smith, discussing their experiences during and after the Tips campaign Tips Campaign Changed Their Lives - YouTube
We have also developed the following social media tools you can use to participate and share the event with others.

Live Tweeting
During the press conference, OSH will be live tweeting from the @CDCTobaccoFree and @Surgeon_GeneralTwitter profiles. You can follow along for up-to-the-minute information from the live event using our Twitter feed or the official #SGR50 hashtag. We encourage all partners to join the conversation and retweet as appropriate.

Twibbon Campaign

A Twibbon is a small image that you can overlay onto your Twitter or Facebook profile picture in order to support a campaign or a cause. You can show your support for the 50^th Anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report by customizing your social media profile picture with the official SGR50 Twibbon.

The Twibbon reflects the anniversary branding and provides customized content for easy posting on your Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Please use the Twibbon and post a tweet or Facebook post with the #SGR50 hashtag to encourage your social media community to do the same.

 

[rothenbj]

"I won't be surprised if e-cigs are demonized at the press conference. "

I'd almost count on it. All part of the trailers leading up to the FDA's feature film.

 

[DrMA]

Surgeon General Urges New Resolve to End Smoking - ABC News

Basically it says "Give us mo money".

Of course it portrays smoking as the source of all evil from cancer, heart disease, stroke, and SIDS down to shaving cuts and stubbing your toe - all tobacco related.

Oh and they throw ecigs in there just for good measure.

What a load of crock! Nobody acknowledged that current tobacco control measures appear to have lost their effectiveness decades ago and that new approaches are needed to address their own stated goal of reducing smoking. Instead they say more of the same should be pursued with renewed conviction.

"Only a recommitment to a heightened level of action will enable us to finish the job," Wimmer said.

In the same spirit, ecigs are portrayed as the newest contraption invented by BT to recruit more kids into their deadly business:

CDC's Frieden urged caution as the industry comes up with various new products given the known dangers about tobacco.

"If we're talking about tobacco products ... they are guilty until proven innocent, not the other way around,"

BT naturally embraced the opportunity to take over the entire ecig industry

Altria said in a statement that it supports the FDA's authority to regulate e-cigarettes as an extension of its power to regulate tobacco.

"Our tobacco companies continue to focus on developing lower-risk products that appeal to adult tobacco consumers and see this as an important business opportunity under FDA regulation,"

[/rant]

If you want to know the truth, read this instead: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/blowing-smoke-about-tobaccorelated-deaths

 

[DC2]

What a load of crock! Nobody acknowledged that current tobacco control measures appear to have lost their effectiveness decades ago and that new approaches are needed to address their own stated goal of reducing smoking. Instead they say more of the same should be pursued with renewed conviction.

It would be funny, if it wasn't.

Give more money to the ANTZ is the theme of the day.
They can save us from this evil scourge.

Hello, my name is load of crap, and I want to make you quit all tobacco products.
Not so much because they will do you harm, but because my livelihood depends on it.

Gotta love those anti-nicotine zealots!!

 

[MTFogger]

What I would like to know is if they are taken all this money through what even means including taxes, think it was said to be in the sum of $80.00 per person per year, and should be spending $12.00 per person to curtail smoking but are only spending $1.50, where is all the rest of the money at or going to? Or who's pocket is it going into. And they want us to hand over the E-cig industry to BT or the government?

 

[soba1]

"I won't be surprised if e-cigs are demonized at the press conference. "

I'd almost count on it. All part of the trailers leading up to the FDA's feature film.

Keep the faith stay positive expect miracles always.....
I say ECigs will be viewed as favorable...

 

[rothenbj]

Keep the faith stay positive expect miracles always.....
I say ECigs will be viewed as favorable...

They're already viewed favorably by anyone who actually knows anything about them that isn't trying to legislate them out of favor. Therein lies the rub.

 

[soba1]

What I would like to know is if they are taken all this money through what even means including taxes, think it was said to be in the sum of $80.00 per person per year, and should be spending $12.00 per person to curtail smoking but are only spending $1.50, where is all the rest of the money at or going to? Or who's pocket is it going into. And they want us to hand over the E-cig industry to BT or the government?

It goes to pay for those meaningless commercials that u see all the time on TV

 

[AgentAnia]

What I would like to know is if they are taken all this money through what even means including taxes, think it was said to be in the sum of $80.00 per person per year, and should be spending $12.00 per person to curtail smoking but are only spending $1.50, where is all the rest of the money at or going to? Or who's pocket is it going into. And they want us to hand over the E-cig industry to BT or the government?

It goes to pay for those meaningless commercials that u see all the time on TV

It's also going as grants to pay the salaries of Tobacco Control honchos and ANTZ researchers, and alot of it is being funneled into the general funds of state and local governments to shore up their failing economies.

(I wonder how many people realize that taxes paid by the smokers they've learned to hate are providing many of the essential services (education and health care) used by them and their children?)

 

[MTFogger]

It's also going as grants to pay the salaries of Tobacco Control honchos and ANTZ researchers, and alot of it is being funneled into the general funds of state and local governments to shore up their failing economies.

(I wonder how many people realize that taxes paid by the smokers they've learned to hate are providing many of the essential services (education and health care) used by them and their children?)

And this is why they don't want a open non contolled product out there.

 

[LoveVanilla]

I am thinking we may have won this battle. Met with my doctor yesterday and he gave a big thumbs up to quitting smoking -- even with ecigs -- pending results of current research. He did express concern with unknown content of imported juices.

I believe the battle is now to prevent lobbyists and the ignorant from apply smoking bans all over the country. The way these are popping up in odd spots around the country, in combination with obviously slanted media propaganda, leads me to believe we're seeing lobbyists (and corporate money) at work i.e. these bans are about greed and money, not people's health.

I think we may well find links between the prohibitionist and other moneyed interests. It's worth looking for these -- and they should be exposed. Often these are hidden through a PR, media or lobbying firm. This is the same pattern seen with corporate interest pushing "immigration reform.”

 

[DC2]

I think we may well find links between the prohibitionist and other moneyed interests. It's worth looking for these -- and they should be exposed.

You don't have to look very hard, because they aren't hard to find...
Grants - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Search the link above for grants to folks like...
--American Lung Association
--American Cancer Society
--Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
--American Legacy Foundation

And for a fun read, check out this link...
FORCES International - News Portal

That's just for starters...

 

[DC2]

I think we may well find links between the prohibitionist and other moneyed interests. It's worth looking for these -- and they should be exposed.

Stanton Glantz could be argued to be the most prominent ANTZ in America today...

$500,000 from Big Pharma to project director Stanton Glantz...
Creating a tobacco document archive - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$399,000 from Big Pharma to project director Stanton Glantz...
Educational campaign for restaurant owners on smoke-free restaurants - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$678,819 from Big Pharma to project director Stanton Glantz...
Educational campaign for restaurant owners on smoke-free restaurants - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$300,000 from Big Pharma to project director Stanton Glantz...
Study of tobacco product placement in entertainment media and tobacco industry involvement in political activity - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

 

[rothenbj]

It's also going as grants to pay the salaries of Tobacco Control honchos and ANTZ researchers, and alot of it is being funneled into the general funds of state and local governments to shore up their failing economies.

(I wonder how many people realize that taxes paid by the smokers they've learned to hate are providing many of the essential services (education and health care) used by them and their children?)

Yup and they figure smokers were conditioned to paying whatever it took to keep smoking. Will vapers be any different without some decent junk science to normalize them back to a smoker's mentality?

 

[LoveVanilla]

Stanton Glantz could be argued to be the most prominent ANTZ in America today...

Great info! And I believe this is EXACTLY where they should be attacked. Keep the science and information campaigns going full-tilt -- but we won't beat them on money. I believe they should publicly -- and widely -- attacked as follows

What we have here is pharmaceutical corporations paying lobbyists, think-tanks and other agents to advance policy DIRECTLY CONTRARY to available science. Policy that demonizes those have quite smoking while perpetuating smoking, illness and death for 25% of this nation's population, massively inflates our healthcare costs -- and enriches these corporations.

Such action is immoral, unconscionable and simply unacceptable. This is a democracy for PEOPLE -- NOT corporations.

And if we can name these corporations by name, so much the better. All right ECF, let's go get these greedy .......s!