Tobacco Funds
Republican Assembly Speaker Curt Pringle wants to restrict the ability of the University of California to do research on the political power of the tobacco industry (June 27).
Of course he does! The research that he wants to suppress is that of professor Stanton Glantz of UC San Francisco, whose previous publications have clearly shown if a politician takes money from the tobacco industry, then he will, very predictably, vote against tobacco- control legislation. Seventy-nine percent of politicians in the U.S. take money from Big Tobacco. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Pringle is one of them.
I invite him to meet some of my patients currently suffering and dying from lung cancer and other tobacco-related diseases. That way he might see, up close and personal, just what misery his dirty tobacco money is buying.
FREDERIC W. GRANNIS JR. MD
Arcadia
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