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My family's not here with me today -- at least not in person -- because of preventable diseases. While I cannot change my family's past, I can be a voice in the movement to improve our nation's health care and our nation's health for the future.Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Barack Obama's nomination for surgeon general.
My mother died of lung cancer, because as a young girl, she wanted to smoke just like her twin brother could. My Uncle Buddy, my mother's twin, who's one of the few surviving black World War II prisoners of war, is at home right now, on oxygen, struggling for each breath because of the years of smoking. My family is not here with me today, at least not in person, because of preventable diseases. While I can't -- or I cannot change my family's past, I can be a voice in the movement to improve our nation's health care and our nation's health for the future.President Obama's nominee for Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Regina Benjamin, in the Rose Garden.
Innocent smoking citizens have become target practice for discrimination and social hatred. They are accused of anything from being killers to child abusers, all based on junk science, propagated with an appalling blindness to scientific and social ethics.Maryetta Ables, President of FORCES, on the Surgeon General's Report; a complaint has been filed with the Office of Research Integrity (ORI).
THE LAST PACK. 07/20/07.Rear Adm. Kenneth Moritsugu, US acting surgeon general, autographed cigarette packs for sailors on a hospital ship in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, but at a price--a pledge to quit. Cigarettes are still sold on the ship.