Comments on: We Need the FDA to Regulate the Tobacco Industry http://sefora.org/2008/03/07/we-need-the-fda-to-regulate-the-tobacco-industry/ Fri, 09 May 2008 13:19:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Russell Seitz http://sefora.org/2008/03/07/we-need-the-fda-to-regulate-the-tobacco-industry/#comment-92 Russell Seitz Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:21:28 +0000 http://sefora.org/2008/03/07/we-need-the-fda-to-regulate-the-tobacco-industry/#comment-92 I wish Doctor Stebbins a good deliverance from his compulsion. Instead of seeking to browbeat them into acquiescence, your organization might more astutely consider why 45 million citizens find it hateful that billions in settlement money be directed at social engineering and authoritarian behavior modification rather than scientific research aimed at extending their lives and preserving their liberty. He is of course as free to hate such a goal as we are to reject his agenda. I wish Doctor Stebbins a good deliverance from his compulsion.

Instead of seeking to browbeat them into acquiescence, your organization might more astutely consider why 45 million citizens find it hateful that billions in settlement money be directed at social engineering and authoritarian behavior modification rather than scientific research aimed at extending their lives and preserving their liberty.

He is of course as free to hate such a goal as we are to reject his agenda.

]]> By: Melanie http://sefora.org/2008/03/07/we-need-the-fda-to-regulate-the-tobacco-industry/#comment-65 Melanie Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:58:53 +0000 http://sefora.org/2008/03/07/we-need-the-fda-to-regulate-the-tobacco-industry/#comment-65 As someone who just lost her mother to smoking related heart disease, I couldn't agree with you more. My mother had been smoking for over 50 years, and even after the quadruple bypass which lead to severe post-operative complications, my mother still wanted a cigarette and was smoking the day she came home from the hospital. We finally wrestled the cigarettes from her, found almost 40 cartons of cigarette she hid in the house, and put her on the patch. And even though for the last seven months of her life she was on the patch, my mother still wanted a cigarette, even after six hospital stays, open-heart surgery, congestive heart failure, and other serious and severe health issues including being on a respirator for almost six weeks. I saw her 10 days before she died, and she asked me to get her a pack of cigarettes then. Up until the day she died, my mother would have been happy to smoke "just one more cigarette." It is a disgrace and quite stomach-turning at how addicting the tobacco companies have made their cigarettes. There needs to be some sort-of regulation on cigarettes. My mother's death - any mother's death -- should be reason enough for at least one person out there to either quit smoking and/or lobby the FDA into regulating cigarettes. Sign me up -- I'm on board. You've got my support, Dr. Stebbins. As someone who just lost her mother to smoking related heart disease, I couldn’t agree with you more. My mother had been smoking for over 50 years, and even after the quadruple bypass which lead to severe post-operative complications, my mother still wanted a cigarette and was smoking the day she came home from the hospital. We finally wrestled the cigarettes from her, found almost 40 cartons of cigarette she hid in the house, and put her on the patch. And even though for the last seven months of her life she was on the patch, my mother still wanted a cigarette, even after six hospital stays, open-heart surgery, congestive heart failure, and other serious and severe health issues including being on a respirator for almost six weeks. I saw her 10 days before she died, and she asked me to get her a pack of cigarettes then. Up until the day she died, my mother would have been happy to smoke “just one more cigarette.”

It is a disgrace and quite stomach-turning at how addicting the tobacco companies have made their cigarettes. There needs to be some sort-of regulation on cigarettes. My mother’s death - any mother’s death — should be reason enough for at least one person out there to either quit smoking and/or lobby the FDA into regulating cigarettes.

Sign me up — I’m on board. You’ve got my support, Dr. Stebbins.

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