Posted on 09/17/2013 8:22:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Edited on 09/17/2013 8:25:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Terrie Hall, a cancer patient who made a bold appearance in a hard-hitting national anti-smoking ad campaign, has died at the age of 53.
In a graphic public service announcement last year, Hall demonstrated her morning routine of putting on false teeth, a wig and a hands-free valve for her stoma, an opening in her throat. The spot was part the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) first-ever national tobacco education ad campaign, and was intended to show the disabling and disfiguring effects of smoking-related illness.
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Nanny State PING!
Thanks for the ping!
I loved smoking. I smoked for 20 years. Then, I decided not to smoke (or chew tobacco, which I adored.) The decisions were mine. MINE. By the way if you smoke and you CHOOSE to stop I do recommend cleaning your teeth - something about it makes it all final. PM me if you are wrestling with this problem. By the grace of God I made it.
Lung cancer I presume...
She had a lot of courage.
Brain...
RIP.
I think she had good intentions and was trying to fight tobacco predominantly through a combination of grassroots activism and attempting to use media to get out there and influence public opinion. That is the most effective way to fight drug abuse of ALL types and, for that matter, vices of all kinds as well. Having a totalitarian-wannabe nanny state gov’t doing it for us only multiplies the rate at which these vices occur. I hope conservatives are learning this much faster than liberals are, and to be sure, I imagine they are.
God rest her soul. She was far more effective than any big government bans and programs. A very tragic life story, and someone who tried to help others.
Cigarettes killed my mother, father and most beloved aunt.
I would like to be added to this ping list if possible. BTW, do most people on this ping list feel strongly opposed to nanny state policies on all drugs? Tobacco, Marijuana, Alcohol, painkillers, etc? Because that is the stance I take on drugs and totalitarian nanny states - I am willing to stand in opposition to nanny state policies on all the aforementioned drugs.
I think she reached many young women with her candor. RIP.
They say it is to some, as addictive as any opiate drug. I smoked for thirty years and have been free of it for a dozen now. I used nicotine supplements for a year. Several false starts. Nobody ever loved smoking cigarettes more than I did. It wasn’t easy, but I thank God every day for giving me the strength to put them behind me. I can’t for the life of me understand why someone would take them up today given what we know now. I hope this woman has convinced someone to give up this insidious habit. May she rest in peace.
Let me add that although I still, after all these years, wish I could have an occasional cigarette, I don’t HAVE to smoke one, and that keeps me free of them. Just one and I’d be back to a pack or more a day in no time. It is a battle, but it isn’t so hard now. You CAN quit them if you want to.
I will also be glad when the jihad against tobacco hangs up its hat, so real research into cancer can happen instead of spending small nations's treasuries on moronic ads and the attack on others.
Unfortunately, with the implementation of Obamacare, the argument that the taxpayer picks up the tab for smokers will never go away, and only intensify.
In the meantime we will pay for AIDS "victims", IV drug users, the slaughter of babies in the womb, and all the other forms of medical maladies which can be linked to behaviour (some of which will be protected by law), but be told we can't have a cigarette, cigar, smoke a pipe, and so forth.
Meh. Do-gooders.
What you said.
I have no sympathy for those who smoke. They were advised of its dangers by the Surgeon General in 1965.
Whenever I saw her ad, or any other CDC tobacco spot, I light up! I don’t do well with the useful idiots that the government uses as tools.
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