Comments on: Great American Smokeout Nov. 17 — Health Department offers programs to help you quit http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/11/16/great-american-smokeout-nov-17-%e2%80%94-health-department-offers-programs-to-help-you-quit/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:10:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alitapp http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/11/16/great-american-smokeout-nov-17-%e2%80%94-health-department-offers-programs-to-help-you-quit/comment-page-1/#comment-3904 Alitapp Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:41:29 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=34332#comment-3904 Whenever a smoker dies, it is tagged for statistical purposes as smoking related, and one in five adults smoke. Thus the statement above reads "one in five deaths is smoking-related." What equation can be made about the Great American Smokeout? The American Cancer Society, as has long been no secret, partners with big pharmaceutical companies to help get them sell a range of stop-smoking drugs. This can be equated to partnership in a few other areas of responsibility -- like hundreds of smoker suicide deaths from Chantix, birth defects of smoker babies from Wellbutrin and nicotine replacement products they conveniently forget to mention are carcinogenic, just to name a few. November 17 may just as well be called the Great American [Cancer Society] Big Pharma Sale Day. Whenever a smoker dies, it is tagged for statistical purposes as smoking related, and one in five adults smoke. Thus the statement above reads “one in five deaths is smoking-related.” What equation can be made about the Great American Smokeout? The American Cancer Society, as has long been no secret, partners with big pharmaceutical companies to help get them sell a range of stop-smoking drugs. This can be equated to partnership in a few other areas of responsibility — like hundreds of smoker suicide deaths from Chantix, birth defects of smoker babies from Wellbutrin and nicotine replacement products they conveniently forget to mention are carcinogenic, just to name a few. November 17 may just as well be called the Great American [Cancer Society] Big Pharma Sale Day.

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