John Greg Ganske, The Nation's Number One Health Problem
“ This bill simply recognizes the facts: tobacco and nicotine are addicting. Tobacco kills over 400,000 people in this country each year. Tobacco companies have and are targeting children to make them addicted to smoking. The FDA should have congressional authority to regulate this drug and those delivery devices. ”
John Greg Ganske, The Nation's Number One Health Problem
“ Speaker, 87 percent of lung cancer deaths and 30 percent of all cancer deaths are attributable to the use of tobacco products. Tobacco use causes heart attacks, strokes, emphysema, peripheral vascular disease, among many others. Mr. Speaker, more than 400,000 people die prematurely each year from diseases attributable to tobacco use in the United States alone. Tobacco really is the grim reaper. More people die each year from tobacco use in this country than die from AIDS, automobile accidents, homicides, suicides, fires, alcohol and illegal drugs combined. ”
John Greg Ganske, The Nation's Number One Health Problem
“ More people in this country die in one year from tobacco than all the soldiers killed in all of the wars this country has fought. Treatment of these diseases will continue to drain over $800 billion from the Medicare trust fund. The VA spends more than one-half billion dollars annually on in-patient care of smoking-related diseases. But these victims of nicotine addiction are statistics that have faces and names. ”
