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THE REAL TRUTH BEHIND
THE "TRUTH" IN FLORIDA |
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Representative
Debby Sanderson and Florida Governor Jeb Bush were lambasted for
daring to question the value of the Florida Teen "Truth
Campaign," supposedly enacted to discourage teen smoking.
According to Stanton Glantz, the $70 million program had
"astonishing" results, even though they were similar to the
drop in teen smoking across the rest of the country. Had the Florida
House looked into the program further, they would have found that
approximately 1/3 of the $70 million was spent on slick ads attacking
the tobacco industry; the other 2/3 was spent on a $600,000
train trip, ostensibly to attract new members to their cause; teen
parties; sting operations; and one
million dollars
on a teen meeting at one of Florida's most exclusive resorts. Their
$70 million was spent in 10 months.
Other
disturbing factors in the "Truth" campaign include teaching
kids how to harass adults they deem pro-tobacco with prank calls,
disruptive and disrespectful behavior, and cutting school to attend
activist demonstrations. Grammar school children are encouraged to
adapt the anti-tobacco propaganda from Hitler's Germany for use in
America in the nineties.
One of
the 'stars' of the "Truth" campaign, high school senior
Jared Perez, stated after an unruly demonstration outside Rep.
Sanderson's office: "There are adults who may not understand our
strategy. Frankly, it doesn't matter what adults think . . ." Source:
L.A. Times, 3/20/99, by Mike Clary
We think
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"Show
Me the Money!!"
American
Cancer Society:
The
World's Richest Charity
The
American Cancer Society--charity or big business? In 1988, the ACS
was worth more than $400 million with $69 million in land, buildings
and equipment. Of that $400 million, only 26% was spent on medical
research and programs. Of the remaining millions, 60% went for
generous salaries, pensions, executive perks, and overhead. The next
year, ACS's cash reserves were more than $700 million, nearly half
coming from public donations and high-profile fundraising campaigns.
In the
past decade, however, more and more of the ACS budget comes from
large pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and entertainment related
corporations, and more and more of their expenditures go not for
medical research, but for advocacy projects, primarily anti-tobacco.
Might
we have already had a cure for cancer had those millions been spent
on research? |
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Meet the #1 Zero!
STANTON GLANTZ
UCSF
NOW READ WHAT STANTON SAYS:
While
trying to get more money in the budget for the teen "Truth"
campaign than the $70 million of last year.)
"The results in Florida are astonishing! Among
middle school students, current cigarette use declined 19%, among
high school students 8% ... In nine months
they have gotten better results on
reducing teen smoking than anyone in the world."
(And
this week while discussing use of the tobacco settlement money) "Programs
focused on teen smoking won't reduce teen smoking.
We need to reduce smoking in general," says Glantz. "The
important message to get out is that the tobacco industry is evil and
exploitative. The industry needs to become socially unacceptable."
Now he
wants to bring this youth terrorism campaign to California . . . and
to YOUR state!
What
Florida would abandon, California may adopt, said Stanton
Glantz, a professor at the University of California and a member of
California's anti-tobacco oversight committee.
``The
pressure to move to this kind of campaign is going to be stronger
than ever.''
And
#2 is
none other than .
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HENRY WAXMAN
(D,
CALIFORNIA)
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In
1995 the Congressional Research Service issued a report entitled
�Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer Risk� that
challenged the claims made by the federal government regarding the
dangers of environmental tobacco smoke. After nearly two years of
extensive research, they found that the studies on ETS, including the
Fontham and Brownson studies, were so flawed that no clear finding of
a public health hazard from secondhand smoke should be claimed.
The
health-nazis, however, disagreed, and came up with their own spin on
the CRS report. Henry |
Rep.
Henry Waxman |
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Waxman
(D, CA) was one of the Congressmen who requested that the CRS
examine the studies used by the EPA and OSHA, but from the quotes
below, it seems that Mr. Waxman may have read a completely different
study.
Waxman:
�The CRS report vindicates the conclusions of the Environmental
Protection Agency. It shows that secondhand smoke is a dangerous
human lung carcinogen.�
CRS:
�... it is possible that very few or even no deaths can be
attributed to ETS.� and even at the highest exposure levels
�the measured risks are still subject to uncertainty.�
Waxman:
�Since the release of the 1993 EPA report classifying ETS as a
human lung carcinogen, there have been four major new studies on ETS.
Three of the four studies report a statistically significant increase
in lung cancer rates at the highest exposure levels.�
CRS:
�... smoker misclassification could explain all the measured
risk even at high exposure levels ....�
Waxman:
�Using data from the recently completed Fontham study, CRS
calculated that the range of annual lung cancer deaths from exposure
to ETS is 470 to 5,500 with a mean value of 2,780 -- virtually the
same level of deaths estimated by EPA.�
CRS:
Mr. Waxman neglected to mention the statement that followed the one
above: �Data from the Brownson, et. al., study, on the other
hand, produce no annual lung cancer deaths from ETS also under the
no-threshold assumption� and this: �... calculations
indicate that misclassification can be a potent uncertainty in these
ETS studies, and could account for the measured risk values.�
CRS says finally that �In the final Fontham study, a small
adjustment for smoker misclassification could render the overall
Fontham results statistically insignificant
at the 95 percent level.�
Waxman:
�The lung cancer risks from exposure to ETS are exceptionally high.�
CRS:
�Even when overall risk is considered
it is a very small risk and is not statistically significant
at a conventional 95 percent level.�
CLICK
HERE TO READ STANTON GLANTZ'S OWN SPIN ON THE CRS REPORT
(The
above quotes from Mr. Waxman can be found in the Congressional
Record, at www.conservativecaucus.com, at www.capweb.net,
and
hard copies of the CRS report are
available from your Congressman's office.) |
"Our
motto must be to lie in order to conquer." --Benito Mussolini
"The
victor will never be asked if he told the truth."--Adolph Hitler
"I
am not a crook." --Richard Nixon
"I
did not have sexual relations with that woman." --Bill Clinton
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STANTON'S
SECONDHAND SMOKE SCAM |
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Stanton
Glantz is the originator of the 53,000 deaths figure bandied about by
the media and the body parts organizations. No government agency or
other authority has ever endorsed it. There's a good reason for this:
the figure exists only in this man's twisted mind. His hatred of
smokers is so obvious and so overwhelming he will not be blinded by
the facts. Unfortunately,
since the administration has discovered just how much money is
available through this kind of misinformation, even the President
doesn't question it.
Here
are some real facts for those who are interested in the truth:
"In
general, there was no elevated lung
cancer risk associated with passive smoke
exposure in the workplace. ..."
Brownson
et. al., 1992
American
Journal of Public Health, November 1992, Vol. 82, No. 11
"...
an odds ratio of 0.91 ... indicating no evidence
of an adverse effect of environmental tobacco smoke in the work-place."
Janerich
et al., 1990 New England Journal of Medicine, Sept. 6, 1990
"...
the association with exposure to passive smoking at work was small
and not statistically significant."
Kalandidi
et al., 1990 Cancer Causes and Control, 1, 15-21, 1990
"Among
women exposed only at work, the multivariate relative risks of total
CHD were 1.49 ... among those occasionally exposed and 1.92 ... among
those regularly exposed to second-hand smoke neither
of which is statistically significant
according to commonly accepted scientific standards."
Kawachi
et al., 1997 Circulation, Vol. 95, No. 10, May 20, 1997
"No
association was observed between the risk
of lung cancer and smoking of husband or passive smoke exposure at work."
Shimizu
et al., 1988 Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 154:389-397, 1988
"We
did not generally find an increase in
CHD [coronary heart disease] risk
associated with ETS exposure at work or in other settings."
Steenland
et al., 1996 Circulation, Vol. 94, No. 4, August 15, 1996
"...
no statistically significant increase in risk
associated with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke at work or
during social activities...."
Stockwell
et al., 1992 Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 84:1417-1422, 1992
"There
was no association between
exposure to ETS at the workplace and risk of lung cancer."
Zaridze
et al., 1998 International Journal of Cancer, 1998, 75, 335-338
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(These
references
and a List--with links--of All Studies Ever Performed on Secondhand
Smoke available here
as well as in the
Journals listed) |
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