Cancer Society fined for lack of disclosure in anti-smoking ads - 6-10-05
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AMA working with 44 states to take away smoking rights.
09/17/2002
Why is YOUR hospitals going smoke free? For The MONEY!
Why is YOUR Doctor after you to Quit Smoking? For the MONEY!
Think about it: the states are in dire financial need for health care. In steps old Easy Money Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. If the state signs up to chop off the heads of their smokers, the state will be a recipient to big grant money. For renovation, brand new MRI machines, you name it, the health facility will get it. All because they are doing away with the smokers and the smoking. Sound fair to you?
The higher the bans, control, restrictions imposed on a smoker in each state, the more grant BLOOD money the state will receive from the RWJ Foundation and the American Medical Association. Think about it.
Maine: Do not smoke if your a foster parent! The DHS says so! It's ok if you sprawl on the couch at night drunk though!
DHS creates smoking rules for foster homes, vehicles
2-26-04 - article here
Maine: Smoking ban suffocates profits at area bars ~ and so it starts....
Maine Smoking privileges cause AMHI tension
Saturday, May 15,
2004
Four AMHI employees went to a hospital after being injured May 4 in a scuffle that they said was triggered by a forensic patient's demand to smoke more and be left alone while smoking.
Cigarette
smoking privileges have traditionally been used as rewards and punishment to control
patients' behavior, Morrill said.
"The more you make it a big deal the more it gets to be a big deal . . . I don't know what to do with this thing. This is the next thing I'm going to have to tackle," said Jamie Morrill, AMHI's acting superintendent
"Our data allowed us to directly examine the impact of changes in tax rates on youth smoking behavior and our results indicate this impact is small or nonexistent."
-- Donald Kenkel, one of the principal investigators and authors of a Cornell University Department of Policy Analysis and Management report on "Putting Out the Fires: Will Higher Taxes Reduce Youth Smoking?" The report, funded in part by the National Cancer Institute, ...
Maine: Parents of children in DHS custody plan protest in Portland
In recent months, many of these cases have affected our members and thus compelled us to speak out and get involved. Federal and State governments have created perverse financial incentives that reward social service agencies for destroying families. Families are not informed of their rights, and when they do try to defend themselves against DHS, a lack of finances further stacks the deck against them. The checks and balances that exist in almost any other area of law do not exist here, with confidentiality laws and complete immunity from prosecution protecting one side - the DHS - and little or nothing protecting the other side - the families.
Furthermore, families with children in the system are terrified by reports of ongoing abuse in foster care. There is a disturbing tendency to cover up these issues rather than expose and correct them. Academic studies and lawsuit "case readings" around the country show that official statistics concerning abuse in foster care vastly underestimate the problem. Those who step forward to report abuse in foster care face retaliation.
We are aware of and support recent efforts to improve the system with family team meetings, but we believe this to be too small an effort and one that will prove to be short-lived without more basic, fundamental changes. The system will not return to its original intent, that of protecting children, unless and until financial incentives stop rewarding the patent destruction of families. Moreover, we must create a system that is as fair to the poor as it is to the rich. Checks and balances insuring due process for families, transparent decision-making, and consistent standards are just some of the necessary elements required of such a system. We commit ourselves to join in this process.
We call for:
1) Removal of the perverse financial incentives that rewards breaking up families.
2) Real citizens review boards to oversee DHS agencies and hold officials accountable for wrongdoing.
3) Review of all cases where un-abused children have been removed from families.
4) Due process, including access to independent experts for all families who are faced with termination of parental rights
Disorders made to order
Drug firms' new selling strategy: Dig up and market a new illness, then peddle a cure
27 September 2002 - click here
Hospitals moving to bar psychiatric patients from smoking/Don't go nuts in Maine
''Our first concern is about health and about patients, and it's high time we made the statement that smoking is not OK in a health care environment,'' Dr. Girard Robinson said.
More cruel and inhumane treatment by Maine's Health Care Facilities.
Controversial anti-smoking drug to be reviewed
The European Medicines Evaluation Agency is reviewing the anti-smoking drug Zyban.
The move comes after a rising number of deaths in the UK of patients who had taken the medicine.
The disease is caused by conflict of interest , tainted research , greed for big bucks , pretentious doctors and scientists, lying, cheating, invasion by the morally bankrupt marketing automatons of the drug industry, derelict politicians and federal and state regulators - all seasoned with huge doses of self-importance and foul odor.
This article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the best article I have ever seen written in the published literature documenting the tragedy of the traditional medical paradigm.
- Big Pharm may sing the blues about research costs, but the taxpayers via our government fund a good big of the basic research. The fact is that the pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable (and most powerful) industry in the world. The medicalizing of every conceivable part of the human condition is only increasing the profit and power of the pharmaceuticals, since for every new "disease," there is--natch--a new drug.
Further, the pharms virtually own the AMA, and they are essentially partners with the U.S. government (and public partners with the WHO). Something like half the panelists at the FDA who approve new drugs are financially connected with Big Pharm. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (biggest single shareholder in Johnson & Johnson) is a partner with the CDC in the war against smoking, and many of the biggest pharms DONATE MONEY directly to the CDC via the Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control. In fact, pharms constitute the majority of these donors. Don't you think these donations would influence the public health policy of the CDC? Of course they do!
Those who think the tobacco industry is the evil empire haven't taken a good look at Big Drugs.
-Wanda Hamilton � 4-24-02
The Anti Crusade Against The Elderly
Medical Liars - Do It For The Money
The American Heart Association
Admits It Deliberately Lied
To The American Public
Don't Trust Your Doctor
From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation site:
February 25, 2002 - National Health Organizations Challenge Governors: Increase Excise Tax on Cigarettes and Save Lives
A national coalition of public health organizations today saluted governors who have proposed increasing their states� cigarette excise taxes and challenged governors and legislators in every state to increase cigarette taxes by a substantial amount.
Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation is not a respected non profit, it is under the control of left
wing extremists who fund programs that further their social causes. Single payer health,
anti evil tobacco companies. The AMA has been under the control of the same philosophical
wackos for a while now. Read their journal, its gone down the tubes promoting junk science
to justify their cause.
And this:
March 4, 2002 - More States Receive Funding To Fight Tobacco Use
Who is behind the Smoking Wars? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the American Medical Society. There are currently 44 states in the pocket of the RWJ Foundation, and the higher the control, restrictions, bans and higher taxes the states put on the smoker, the bigger the grants they receive from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Our Health Care Facilities in Maine
(The R.W. Johnson Foundation is a well-known anti-smoker industry which gets much of their enormous funding from the pharmaceutical industry, which, of course, has a very high financial stake in selling their quit smoking aids which have been proven to be largely ineffective).
The Consumers For Affordable Health of Maine is receiving until 2004, over $992,060
from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Now......where is this money going??!!
Headline: Maine receiving huge grants to increase cigarette taxes and ban smoking working hand in hand with the American Medical Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Read up on the real Robert Wood Johnson
RWJF Grant Recipient List is a Who's Who of the Anti-Smoking Movement
You have to look hard when you go to the Consumers For Affordable Health Care in Maine , in order to find their chapter called Coalition. The Coalition released a press release in November 2000 about their war on smokers, and how they want the adult smokers in Maine to cover all the health care of all the uninsured people in Maine. When we know that the Tobacco Settlement money is to be used for this. So, where ARE they spending the tobacco settlement money, if they still need coverage for the uninsured? Someone is getting it, and it surely isn't the uninsured.
The Consumers For Affordable Health of Maine is receiving over until 2004, $992,060
f rom the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Now......where is this money going??!!
Does this scare you? It sure scares the hell out of ME! Someone sent me this wonderful (or despicable, depending on how you look at it) link showing the collaboration between the American Medical Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the MILLIONS $$$$ being given to OUR states in an attempt to raise cigarette taxes and ban smoking , all under the name of the Smokeless States National Tobacco Policy Initiative.
And our wonderful state of Maine is one of the states that is in the pocket of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.....
"The goal of the SmokeLess States
program is to reduce tobacco use.
To meet this goal, SmokeLess States is
currently funding multi-member coalitions in 40 states (in blue). "
Read the connection between Consumers of Maine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, then select Tobacco.
March 4, 2002 - More States Receive Funding To Fight Tobacco Use
Smokeless States National Tobacco Policy Initiative Expands To 44 States and the District of Columbia
The funding will be used to:
Does this scare you? It sure scares the hell out of ME! Someone sent me this wonderful (or despicable, depending on how you look at it) link showing the collaboration between the American Medical Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the MILLIONS $$$$ being given to OUR states in an attempt to raise cigarette taxes and ban smoking , all under the name of the Smokeless States National Tobacco Policy Initiative.
And our wonderful state of Maine is one of the states that is in the pocket of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.....
"The goal of the SmokeLess States
program is to reduce tobacco use.
To meet this goal, SmokeLess States is
currently funding multi-member coalitions in 40 states (in blue). "
Their 2001 summer objective is this:
~fostering changes in Medicaid and state employee health insurance coverage and encouraging private health insurers to cover tobacco dependence treatment as part of routine coverage.
J ust a note before I get started: All of the Doctors, nurses and staff are
absolutely WONDERFUL and CARING professionals. I love all of them. You will find none better in any hospital around the United States. It is not THEIR fault of what has happened in the health care centers. It's the "higher ups," that bowed down to the "Legal Authority" and the honey pot of wealth. All for the sake of "funding." It's a sad day when a health care facility has to play hatchet man in order to receive grants. Imagine if "you" worked in the medical field, and your boss came to you and said, "It's either smoking or your job. One has got to go...."
It just seems funny that Maine became one of Robert Wood Johnson Foundations "Grants," around the same time that our health facilities went smoke free. Something doesn't pass the smell test.
Around the state, if you have noticed by now, the hospitals went "smoke free." Can't even smoke in your car on their parking lot! Most health care facilities have gone smoke free with no smoking within 50 feet of their property.
One day last month, we had to go to the emergency room for help. We were there for "4" hours. We didn't dare take a ride around the block, for fear of losing our place in line. But, literally , with their policy, we were held hostage in a very stressful situation.
More food for thought: One hospital has received funding for a big MRI machine! That should be up and running this fall. We all have an idea about how much THAT costs!! You might say this is so WONDERFUL. But.....Is It??!! At what cost? Any improvements a hospital can make is wonderful.........but NOT at the expense of 1 in 4 of their patients.
I believe that the Hospital Medical Administration and the Board Of Health has sacrificed the smokers in order to get their huge grants from the RWJ Foundation.
The Medical Centers in Maine claim to be caring facilities, dedicated to the care of their patients............now it turns out that they only care about 1 in "4" of their patients. This is unacceptable.
I wonder how many Doctors and Nurses we lost when the hospitals went smoke free. Or perhaps, they were coerced into taking their cessation program?
I have also learned, that if a patient is admitted for any length of time, and they are a smoker, the hospital will slap that PATCH onto your ARM! Now isn't that sweet of them. To which we will still be charged $75 for the patch, if I am not mistaken about the cost. I know it is enormous. And this too, is not by choice! And to top it off, we have to PAY for this patch.
If any of anti-smoker reads this, and say "Yeaaaa, smokers are a filthy bunch! And if you go to a hospital for health care, just try to remember how you were able to receive the advanced treatments that you are receiving. From the "filthy dirty smokers." You might not give two-cents about this, but 1 in 4 of the residence have really been given the shaft!
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If you or your loved one is in a nursing home, or planning on going into a nursing home, this is a MUST READ :
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation SAPRP Project Summary
James Bergman, J.D.
The Center for Social Gerontology, Inc.
SMOKING POLICIES IN ELDERLY FACILITIES: ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT
POLICIES & DEVELOPMENT OF MODEL POLICIES.
(Policies & Development of Model Policies.....or Policies & Development of MODEL CONTROL ???!!!)
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I got my answer on the 25th of October with the article published in the Bangor Daily News:
The Consumers For Affordable Health of Maine is receiving over until 2004, $992,060
from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Now......where is this money going??!!