President’s Cancer Panel urges regulations; Also, President Bush to eliminate Cancer Panel
Apparently Lance Armstrong; Margaret L. Kripke, and LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., didn’t get the memo - the Bush Administration doesn’t believe in regulations of any type on anything, be in mine safety or food safety or the tobacco industry. If the free market decides that people will die of cancer, than so be it. That’s what America is all about.
President’s Cancer Panel: Cut Risks
Trio Calls Tobacco, Food, Beverage Industries “Disease Vectors” And Urges RegulationThe President’s Cancer Panel calls for U.S. leaders to “summon the political will” to reduce Americans’ cancer risks — and slams the tobacco, food, and beverage industries as “disease vectors.”
Appointed by the President Bush, the panel’s three members are cancer survivor and cycling champion Lance Armstrong; Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D., chief academic officer at Houston’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; and panel chairman LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., M.D., professor of surgery at Howard University in Washington.
It’s the panel’s job to tell the president how the nation’s war on cancer is going. According to this year’s report, it’s not going very well at all.
Research continues to move forward — but thwarting major progress is the unhealthy lifestyles of millions of Americans.
Individual responsibility is important, the panel notes. But the panel finds that cancer prevention efforts “are compromised by federal, state, and local policies that have decreased the availability and affordability of healthy foods, limited physical education in schools,” and created an “environment that discourages physical activity.”
Perhaps even more importantly, the panel says, are “ineffective policies” that fail to regulate the marketing practices of “disease vectors” — the tobacco, food, and beverage industries.
Mincing no words, the panel report singles out the tobacco industry as “a vector of disease and death that can no more be ignored in seeking solutions to the tobacco problem than mosquitoes can be ignored in seeking to eradicate malaria.”
The report by the Cancer Panel was immediately filed next to the Iraq Study Group’s report. The main thing this report will prove to the current batch of Republicans is this - stop sending people out to do reports.
–WKW
August 17th, 2007 at 9:32 am
I don´t see your point very clearly here. I hope for your own good that you are just bitching about Bush´s lack of respect for any report that he doesn´t like instead of advocating controls of what people should eat and drink and if people should smoke? I believe the government should not limit the ways I can hurt myself. If I wanna chain smoke, eat like crazy or get drunk, that´s my problem. I also think if one is way too succeptive to marketing strategies like getting seduced by a all-you-can-eat pancake extravaganza at IHOP than that is their own problem. Now appologize to the troops, you fucking commie, or you will burn in hell of all eternity!
August 17th, 2007 at 11:24 am
i mean, FOR all eternity
August 21st, 2007 at 9:23 pm
“President’s Cancer Panel urges regulations; Also, President Bush to eliminate Cancer Panel”
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, Bill. *cough*
By the way, I’m a completely new person who has never been here before. *cough*