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CDC Director Frieden Once Called Tobacco Execs “Mass Murderers”
gotnews.com ^
 | October 24, 2014
 | Charles C. Johnson
Posted on 10/24/2014 9:11:03 AM PDT by Enterprise
"Says Frieden, whos been fiercely vilified by the tobacco industry for his bluntly aggressive attack on cigarettes: I was once quoted, accurately, as saying that during the years I spent fighting TB, my enemy was a micro-bacterialtuberculosisbut now its an even lower form of life: tobacco executives! An executive from Phillip Morris actually wrote to me and complained, basically, that this was a form of hate speech, and I had to agree. So I no longer use that expression. Now I just stick to the facts and describe tobacco company executives as mass murderers.
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    Yeah right. Buffoon.
To: Enterprise
    Seems the tables may have turned. If the viral escape in NYC breaks out, HE may be the biggest mass murderer of all! All because they REFUSE to protect us from foreign disease.
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:13:55 AM PDT
by 
Gaffer
 
To: Enterprise
    Every person who smokes makes a conscious decision to light up and smoke every time they pull one out of the pack. There isn’t a sentient person alive who is unaware of the dangers of smoking.
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:14:17 AM PDT
by 
Blood of Tyrants
(The cure has become worse than the disease.  Support an end to the WOD now.)
 
To: Enterprise; wagglebee; Morgana
    Abortionists are mass murderers.
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:14:35 AM PDT
by 
a fool in paradise
(Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
 
To: Enterprise
    Doesn’t the tobacco plant allow the something to grow on it to make medicine they used to treat Ebola?
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:16:17 AM PDT
by 
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
 
To: Enterprise
    I blow a luscious cloud of luxuriously fragrant Fuente Don Carlos smoke in his general direction......
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:19:39 AM PDT
by 
clintonh8r
( BRILLIANT, WITTY (but incendiary)TAG LINE REMOVED BY MODERATORS.)
 
To: clintonh8r
    send me a box and I’ll help you do the same.
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:23:01 AM PDT
by 
roofgoat
 
To: Gaffer
    Always keep in mind that the Democrat party is the party which adores death.
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:23:39 AM PDT
by 
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
 
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:23:58 AM PDT
by 
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
 
To: b4its2late
    Rush has touched on that on his show. There is something from a tobacco plant which is helpful against Ebola.
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:25:19 AM PDT
by 
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
 
To: clintonh8r
    What I send in his direction is something a little more pungent.
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:26:36 AM PDT
by 
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
 
To: Enterprise; b4its2late
    The tobacco plants used to make ZMapp have been genetically modified to do so. Regular tobacco plants can’t make those antibodies.
 
To: b4its2late
    I think that is marijuana that does that. I read one of the posts form someone that advocates for its legalization that it cures epilepsy. The general drift I get from its advocates is that it also cures blindness, restores kidneys when they fail. I think that they also believes that it will cure every disease and illness known to man, its usage will resurrect the dead. Only their modesty prevents them from stating this. The additional benefits from legalizing the use of marijuana will be the emptying out of hospitals and doctor's offices, thus doing away with obamacare. And once the cemeteries are empty, they will be more land for the environmentalists to protect.
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:31:57 AM PDT
by 
sport
 
To: Black Agnes
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:35:48 AM PDT
by 
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
 
To: Black Agnes
    oh oh the anti GMO people will be up in arms soon...
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:36:20 AM PDT
by 
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
 
To: MeshugeMikey
    The vaccines use gmo viruses as well.
 
To: Enterprise
    Well, probably. But let me tell you. Democrats don’t like Obama being called Obola or the Ebola President, and they certainly aren’t liking the buffoonish perception most people are forming about the CDC. If they eff this up (off to a good start) they’ll be known as the Center for Death Concentration or similar. Absolute frigging incompetents.
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:37:54 AM PDT
by 
Gaffer
 
To: Black Agnes
    I thought GMO/.....could KILL?....
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:38:05 AM PDT
by 
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
 
To: Gaffer
    I know. Ebama, Eboma, Obola. It drives them mad and I love it!
 
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posted on 
10/24/2014 9:39:01 AM PDT
by 
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
 
To: MeshugeMikey
    Depends on what it’s used for.
 
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