Part 2 Of Guam News Factor's Series On Smoking
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Intro: Last week Guam News Factor featured a story on the Guam Medical Society’s (GMS) plans to seek national support to raise the price of cigarettes on Guam.
Dr. Jerone Landstrom has been selected as the American Medical Association (AMA) Delegate from Guam to attend the annual meeting this June and he will be armed with a resolution that represents the first salvo in what is certain to be a fight to raise the price of smoking tobacco products on Guam. The resolution submitted by the GMS has been listed by the AMA for presentation and for potential action.
Dr. Sam Friedman, cancer specialist and president of GMS has much to say about the issue and dismissed any requests for gripping numbers and figures on the estimated annual costs to treat smoking related illnesses.� The actual number of revenues generated by cigarette sales or collected by cigarette distributors is difficult to obtain.� For Friedman who described those data as, “probably a well-guarded secret,” it is the “loss of human lives and blatant neglect for human suffering” that the community better pay attention to.
Instead he insisted figures can barely be calculated as they will increase exponentially if people continue to smoke. . . .
Guam News Factor continues to support doctors Landstrom and Friedman and the Guam Medical Society in their efforts to save lives.
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