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I wouldn't let them [smokers at the DHHS] smoke on our property. I made them go over and smoke on the property of the EPA.Former U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary and four-term Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, in his keynote speech at a Sept. 16 Urban Health Care conference in San Francisco. Thompson advocated having tobacco regulated by the Food & Drug Administration and putting a dollar-a-pack tax on cigarettes to fund smoking cessation programs.
Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange "5 As" approach to cessation intervention, according to the new DHHS release, "Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Nurses."
[Donating to Sue Ann Thompson's Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation is] clearly a way to have influence through a non-traditional route. . . It's more of a soft-money route to get to the governor.Unidentified lobbyist who helped raise money for the foundation, which provides another Philip Morris link to DHHS chief Tommy Thompson. Spivak, C. and Bice, D., <I>Lobbyists' concern for women's health may involve spouse</I>