Clearing The Air

"Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids" (CTFK) is lobbying US lawmakers for FDA regulation of tobacco nicotine products.

It has come to my attention that the "Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids" (CTFK) is lobbying US lawmakers for FDA regulation of tobacco nicotine products. However, it is important to for you to understand that CTFK has received $70 million of its funding from the pharmaceutical nicotine industry.....specifically RWJF. (funding link below)

http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=40868

RWJF is a member of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical conglomerate. Johnson & Johnson's family of companies, manufactures Nicoderm, Nicoderm CQ, Nicotrol, Nicorette, Commit and a whole host of other alternative nicotine products. Thus making RWJF and CTFK's motives for lobbying FDA regulation as well as smoking ban restrictions less than honorable and in fact downright dubious.

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2007/02/smoking-bans-good-public-policy-or.html

Please don't be fooled by these charlatans. They are merely pharmaceutical company funded lobbyists simply attempting to level the playing field.

(Clearing the Air provides the above letter to U.S. lawmakers, and I encourage our readers to do the same)

posted by marcus aurelius @ 9:37 AM