Voluntary as in "not being paid"?
The ACS has spent $29,640,000 MORE on prevention than on research. I wonder how many people still think they're donating to "find a cure in my lifetime"? Apparently absent from their website is the word "cure".
Did you know that the
ACS' own study shows that 91.4% of the long term quit smokers quit
COLD TURKEY WITH NO PATCHES OR DRUGS? (page 25, table 3)
That's right!! So why would they push the drugs and patches?
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Grant:
"Staff at the American Cancer Society created the Center for Tobacco Cessation, which operated an online resource center (now defunct) to expand the use of evidence-based tobacco-cessation treatments." Evidence-based?
The ACS, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, were
paid 99 million dollars by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for smoking bans. In fact, when organizations didn't more from education to "control", they lost their funding.
So why would the ACS push the patches and drugs even though COLD TURKEY was far more successful? Who paid for the bans? See the RWJF page.
ACS polls
Here are a few of the ACS polls. Notice how they ask leading question, survey only 600 "Ohio" registered voters (although the survey appears to expand beyond Ohio) and who funds these surveys (the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). Here's what's interesting. It doesn't matter if it's SmokeFree Ohio (aka American Cancer Society) or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's created and funded Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, they only survey 600 people. The people who voted on Issue 5 totaled 4,450,325 people. Does anyone truly believe that 600 people statistically represents nearly 4 1/2 million people?
Check out their:
Poll Highlights 04-2008 (tobacco tax increase issue)
SFO Survey 11-2007
Annotated poll
This is the "comparision" sheet the ACS is distributing against SB346 - we added our comments
The Smoke Free Workplace Act is Ohio’s comprehensive clean indoor air legislation eliminating secondhand smoke from workplaces and public places. Ohio was the 15th state to go completely smoke-free when voters approved the SmokeFreeOhio ballot initiative in November 2006. Nearly 60% of Ohio voters approved the measure. Since Ohio’s adoption of the Smoke Free Workplace Act, nine additional states have enacted smoke-free legislation.
Unfortunately, a group of Ohio lawmakers want to dismantle the protections for Ohio’s workers and families and overturn the vote of Ohioans. A bill introduced in the General Assembly, Senate Bill 346, would gut the Smoke Free Workplace Act.
| Ohio’s current Smoke Free Workplace Law | SB 346 | Opponents of Ohio Bans’ Comments to ACS |
Restaurants | Smoke-free | Allows smoking in most restaurants* | Wrong. It allows smoking in family owned restaurants that want to cater to smokers. Those who have non-smoking clientele have built up a venue for them. Franchise restaurants will remain smoke-free. |
Bars | Smoke-free | Allows smoking in most bars* | It allows family owned bars to cater to the customers who patronize their business. These are ADULT establishments. Bars did not see the “hoards” of anti smoking customers they were promised when their businesses were forced to be smoke-free. |
Offices | Smoke-free | Allows smoking in many offices* | Many offices? How many offices are family owned? This is a scare tactic by the ACS. This assumes the few family owned offices would prefer to not be smoke-free which the ACS cannot assume. |
Bowling Alleys | Smoke-free | Allows smoking in many bowling alleys* | How many bowling alleys are family owned? Most are franchises. And those that are family owned that cater to families will probably remain smoke-free. |
Retail Stores | Smoke-free | Allows smoking in many retail stores* | This is hysterical. The ACS wants you to believe you’ll walk into a smoking Macy’s or Wal-Mart. How many retail stores that are family owned would even want to permit smoking? What a sham! |
Factories | Smoke-free | Allows smoking in some factories* | How many family owned factories are in Ohio? |
Non-profit Clubs | Smoke-free if club has employees | Allows smoking | Yes – the ballot language that voters approved said YES to exempt non-profit clubs! |
Treats all businesses by the same set of rules | Yes | No | It treats all family owned businesses by the same rules. Then the families who own these businesses can decide for themselves what atmosphere to provide. The people who invested their own money into their business should have that right. NO ONE ELSE. |
Easy for customers to understand | Yes | No | A sign posted that “This is a family owned establishment – we permit/do not permit smoking”. How hard is that to understand? |
Easy for employees to understand | Yes | No | Does the ACS think our employees are stupid? They come to work, understand our businesses are either smoking or non-smoking. How hard is that to understand? |
Clear rules for enforcement | Yes | No | This is my favorite fallacy to dispute. If you think the current ban has clear rules, let me tell you what it’s like for a business owner. First, they were told to take away ash trays and put up signs. The ODH or local Bd. Of Health were to enforce the ban. Not only have they pushed enforcement off on the owner, when the inspectors DO witness a person smoking, they do NOT warn or fine them. In fact they say NOTHING to them. Even more confusing is the ODH says smoking a cigarette in a prohibited area is NOT a violation of the law. Now, how confusing is that? A sign at the entrances will tell customers, potential employees and “inspectors” whether or not the family owned business permits smoking. Why is that confusing? It’s clearer than the current rules. |
*SB 346 would exempt “family-owned businesses” to which the following apply:
· the business is not publicly-owned or traded
· the president or chief operating officer comes from a family having controlling interest in the business or corporate structure
· the business is in a free-standing structure or is separated from other businesses by a firewall.
SB 346 would allow hundreds of thousands of workers in Ohio to be exposed to secondhand smoke on the job, would treat businesses differently based on their corporate structure, and would overturn the vote of Ohioans. SB 346 (or whatever the new bill number is) does not overturn the vote of Ohioans. That’s what the ACS keeps saying but the truth is, the voters VOTED for these exemptions! Once the law passed, they changed the law. Is THAT how elections are supposed to be run?
Here’s the actual ballot people saw when they voted