Posted on 05/02/2016 5:28:53 PM PDT by Loyalist
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a smoking prevention campaign aimed at young adult lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) persons who are occasional users of tobacco.
Young adult LGBT persons are nearly twice as likely to use tobacco as other young adults, said Mitch Zeller, JD, director, Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), FDA, during a press briefing to announce the campaign, called This Free Life.
Of the more than 2 million LGBT persons aged 18 to 24 years in the United States, more than 800,000 are occasional or so-called social smokers, according to Dr Zeller.
"Unfortunately, research tells us that LGBT young adults often don't consider themselves to be smokers and don't understand the associated health risks."
The campaign, said Dr Zeller, "is aimed at making LGBT young adults aware that there is no safe amount of smoking and that even an occasional cigarette can have serious health implications and lead to addiction."
The range of negative health outcomes from smoking, such as cancer, heart disease, and respiratory illnesses, can disproportionately affect minority groups such as the LGBT community, said Richard Wolitski, PhD, acting director of the Office for HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, US Department of Health and Human Services, during the briefing.
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Sex leads to smoking a cigarette afterwards, so are they going to discourage sex?
If they say they aren't smokers, then they aren't smokers even if they have burning tobacco sticks in their mouths. What they claim is true - visual evidence to the contrary is worthless.< /how I wish it was sarcasm>
What about a simpler poster.
“NO FAGS” or “NO FAGS IN YOUR MOUTH”
Their lifestyle will generally ensure that they get a fatal STD by around age 40 whereas smoking takes another decade or two or three or more to develop a fatal cancer.
let's spend tax dollars now to prevent smoking and death in thirty years when this population will long be gone due to suicide, AIDS, and domestic violence within the next five years. Insanity.
A picture of a burning cigarette in an ashtray with the caption “Snuff that fag!”
Yeah because SMOKING is the biggest health problem the perverts have.
God the country is run by total morons.
Thank you for referencing that article Loyalist. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
LGBT and possibly military issues aside, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to spend taxpayer dollars to help anybody stop smoking.
Fire half the FDA “workers” and no one will notice. They obviously have run out of useful things to do. The only thing this anti-smoking campaign does is flush taxpayers dollars down the toilet.
Stop smoking,
Please jump off very tall buildings.
We need to find a minority woman to front for us and bid on an ad campaign.
Smoking makes you gay?
They are promoting the use of lubricant?
Bwaahhhaaahaaa!
Do I detect some PC bigotry here? “Die hetro die”
Isnt it nice that we care
Thank you for referencing that article Loyalist. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
LGBT and possibly military issues aside, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to spend taxpayer dollars to help anybody stop smoking.
So they are only going to help one group of people over the rest, I guess if your not one of them you don’t matter.
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