If tobacco suddenly were unavailable and was as expensive as heroin and cocaine, I think that you would find that the behavior of some tobacco addicts would be very much like the behavior of some addicts of heroin and cocaine,

I've never had a puff of marijuana, ... I've never had cocaine. I've never had speed. I've never had heroin. I've never had a sleeping pill.

The Action Plan provides a blue print for getting proven cessation treatment to literally every smoker in America who wants to quit. This can have enormous benefit for everyone-adding years of life for former smokers and reducing healthcare costs for all Americans. Making the tobacco companies pay for this is only proper.

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

Today, only a small percentage of consumers are aware of clinical trials as a health care option, both from a standpoint of receiving a high level of care and in helping develop the latest products to treat debilitating or life-threatening diseases,

Except for smoking, obesity is now the number one preventable cause of death in this country. Three hundred thousand people die of obesity every year,