If Jennings were to present a balance in his perspectives he would be looking at the old school mandate. Consider the source and always follow the money. How is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation connected to promoting smoking bans? would be an excellent place to start. For a fresh look and a shot at Pulitzer to reflect bravery, here is an excellent read which dispels the myths of the medico-fascists and exposes the truth of the new speak bigots and normality in their eyes.
Peter Jennings reports on Tobacco, the number one killer in the U.S.Tobacco is still the number one killer in our nation. But as Peter Jennings reveals in this examination of the “tobacco wars,” the responsibility lies not only with tobacco companies but also with the government and prominent public health advocates who squandered an historic opportunity to settle with the industry, regulate tobacco, and save millions of lives. PETER JENNIGS REPORTING: FROM THE TOBACCO FILE: STORIES OF BETRAYAL AND NEGLECT tells the story of a rare chance to reign in big tobacco at a time when the industry was under siege from government officials who wanted to regulate it and state Attorneys General who were suing it. The story starts in the mid-1990s, when Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore sued the tobacco industry to recover hundreds of billions of dollars spent by states caring for sick smokers. Publicly the tobacco companies were confident and still denying that smoking was dangerous or addictive. But privately they were terrified and believed their very survival was at stake. They were quietly looking for a way to settle. In a rare interview with a senior Philip Morris official, Jennings goes behind the scenes to explore what was happening within this very worried industry. Moore’s lawsuit resulted in an historic settlement with the tobacco companies that would have changed how they made and marketed cigarettes. But some of tobacco’s enemies were skeptical, concerned that the agreement went too easy on the industry. FROM THE TOBACCO FILE investigates how support for that settlement—and a subsequent, potentially landmark bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain—fell apart , ironically, under attack from public health activists like former FDA commissioner David Kessler and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Jennings looks at the fallout from the failure to pass legislation that would have changed the tobacco industry forever. Today both the states and the federal government have all but abandoned efforts to prevent smoking or regulate the nation’s most deadly product. FROM THE TOBACCO FILE examines how states have misspent money intended to reduce youth smoking and how the federal government continues to regulate the nation’s most deadly product—reveals a nation’s neglect that continues to cost millions and millions of lives.  Peter Jennings Reporting: From the Tobacco File
Release Year: 2004 Duration: 41 min Availability: Worldwide Related: Health, Politics, Science & Nature, Peter Jennings Reporting Tobacco is still the number one killer in our nation. But as Peter Jennings reveals in this examination of the “tobacco wars,” the responsibility lies not only with tobacco companies but also with the government and prominent public health advocates who squandered an historic opportunity to settle with the industry, regulate tobacco, and save millions of lives. PETER JENNIGS REPORTING: FROM THE TOBACCO FILE: STORIES OF BETRAYAL AND NEGLECT tells the story of a rare chance to reign in big tobacco at a time when the industry was under siege from government officials who wanted to regulate it and state Attorneys General who were suing it. The story starts in the mid-1990s, when Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore sued the tobacco industry to recover hundreds of billions of dollars spent by states caring for sick smokers. Publicly the tobacco companies were confident and still denying that smoking was dangerous or addictive. But privately they were terrified and believed their very survival was at stake. They were quietly looking for a way to settle. In a rare interview with a senior Philip Morris official, Jennings goes behind the scenes to explore what was happening within this very worried industry. Moore’s lawsuit resulted in an historic settlement with the tobacco companies that would have changed how they made and marketed cigarettes. But some of tobacco’s enemies were skeptical, concerned that the agreement went too easy on the industry. FROM THE TOBACCO FILE investigates how support for that settlement—and a subsequent, potentially landmark bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain—fell apart , ironically, under attack from public health activists like former FDA commissioner David Kessler and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Jennings looks at the fallout from the failure to pass legislation that would have changed the tobacco industry forever. Today both the states and the federal government have all but abandoned efforts to prevent smoking or regulate the nation’s most deadly product. FROM THE TOBACCO FILE examines how states have misspent money intended to reduce youth smoking and how the federal government continues to regulate the nation’s most deadly product—reveals a nation’s neglect that continues to cost millions and millions of lives. Report a Technical Issue If you're having any difficulties viewing the film or have any playback-related technical questions, contact us using our general feedback page.
Comments Posted 07/15/09 by Kevin
Posted 07/15/09 by Michael J. McFadden
So Big Tobacco has “bought” Congress with its $3 million a year lobbying efforts? What does that say about Big Pharma with its $20 million a year lobbying? Peter Jenkins seems to have played this story as more of a gospel/diatribe than as actual objective news investigation. Does/Did Big Tobacco play a lot of nasty political and lobbying games to advance its interests? I’m sure they did,but so has every other corporate interest in modern history. My bet is that at the current time the big pharmaceutical NicoGummyPatchyPeople have a LOT more clout in Congress than Big Tobacco.
Michael J. McFadden
Posted 07/15/09 by Kevin
The only suckers in all of this are the people who believe in the advertising in place of each other “Smokers” or not. First and foremost the largest preventable cause of mortality and morbidity is the medical profession second only to the drug pushers in white lab coats, who kill thousands every year without prosecutions or mitigation in most cases. Ask Michael Jackson what he thinks, Oh right you can’t can you? The list of causes of death never seem to include the most offensive and obvious causes. In place of real and immediate risks imposed by Diesel exhaust we have a group-think promotion of second hand smoke? In protection of a hundred year relationship between the namesake Rockefeller and its control over research funding. The same Rockefellers who promoted Eugenics, Hitler and now the bigotry of managed healthcare. The elderly paid their costs in advance, when they were financing the care of those who came before them and a boatload of socialist election promises. Provoking a hatred of the effects of aging is a crime. A human rights abuse seen in taxing addiction and smoking bans and a shameful example of materialism and its science focused perspectives, devoid of what separates us from the animals; the power of compassion and the confidence that we are all one and we are resilient enough with courage to overcome all obstacles. The charities have backpedaled in failures, from their former promises to find cures, to now “conquering diseases” that battle exists in treating real people like a disease, and will be seen in cruel acts against our neighbors sponsored by just how much cruelty they can promote with charity dollars to force compliance. The truth about nicotine addiction? Read it and weep. http://encyclopedia.smokersclub.com/16.html They have been telling us a lot of lies and stealing a lot of our cash, while playing us against ourselves. Just who is working for who and isn’t it time someone cleaned up the old money “white” house? |
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