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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.
[I am] no longer shocked at the extensive reach of the tobacco industry and what it does, but I am quite surprised that parts of the institution we call journalism can be so swayed to purposely mislead their readers on such an important public health issue as secondhand smoke.Richard Hurt, M.D., co-author of a report on secret documents that revealed the tobacco industry launched an extensive, multifaceted effort to influence the scientific debate about the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
This is just one segment of an enormous PR campaign. People need to understand that a lot of rhetoric has been made up, fabricated by the tobacco industry. This clearly demonstrates the lengths to which this industry will go to fight something that is clearly in the interest of the public health.Dr. Richard D. Hurt, co-author of the secret document report published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
sand in the gearsTobacco industry officials' description of its strategies to try to derail the 1993 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report that led to smoke-free indoor air requirements.