Hey corporate boy, when did your company get the full backing of the President of the United States the same day your company announced strategic changes?
OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT
Nah...Obama praising the CVS decision because they "will help advance MY administrations effort..." wasn't a political decision. It was a "corporate decision" not in coordination with any government officials or political parties.
Please...Join Reality Joey.
It's a Government directed backroom politically motivated activity with promises of Government rewards and huge incentives and tax breaks... YOU GET REAL Cissyboy....you have never lived in reality and I don't expect you will anytime soon. Your blinder view of life continues to amaze....it is simply unbelievable that you actually survive. If Obama had said nothing, you'd be taking that side of the coin and attacking him for not stepping up on the topic. If anyone said the color was black, you would argue it was a dark shade of grey......that's who you are!
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
..it is simply unbelievable that you actually survive. If Obama had said nothing, you'd be taking that side of the coin and attacking him for not stepping up on the topic.
If anyone said the color was black, you would argue it was a dark shade of grey......that's who you are!
Hmmmm...No...If Obama didn't say anything, it wouldn't be in the "news", and this thread wouldn't exist because people like comrade box would not have posted it, because he wouldn't have considered their decision to be part of some national social crusade to eliminate tobacco. CVS would have simply stopped buying tobacco products and spent money on advertisement announcing their new company image, and went on with business.
O'bomber actually used the office of the president to endorse a corporation's new business model because it was in line with his administrations social agenda. It was FREE ADVERTISEMENT for CVS. But, like I said before, some Americans like their fascist government and think this is perfectly normal for the Federal Government to partner with the private sector to help bring about change they desire.
No dark shade of gray here. Just pointing out your open endorsement of corporatism(aka fascism).
you still think that the 1%ers will be abiding by the same cattle rules....you've got to be kidding...you're OK with the system telling the 99% how to live their lives based on their income? really? so you agree to medicaid/food stamp drug testing and limiting their choice of where to spend the $$ they get from the cast system? you're not liberal you're a control freak.....
national health insurance just slammed the door of choice on your poor poor 99%ers and kept the control in the hands of the 1%ers....
I'm not promoting smoking, I really don't care if you miss work and cause America loss of productivity as prescribed by your evil corporations and the 1%ers in charge of it all....
the union/military teach this.....
YUP! I'm quoting myself...why? because Box doesn't give logical reason for the control and logical reason for WHO has the control.....
you haven't answered....I'm pretty free compared to you...so MAKE YOUR CASE Napoleon.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
This kills more people around the world prematurely than smoking does... Some day you'll kick this bad habit.
and what does your biased point have to do with CVS discontinuing sales of cigarettes.... and how is their Corporate decision somehow related to your hatred of the Military, the police, the Government, and people who have succeeded in the Corp world.... is it all centered around your own personal failures and hatred of those that have succeeded in life and are comfortable with their achievements......is that it Strawboy?
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
and what does your biased point have to do with CVS discontinuing sales of cigarettes....
Well, if you leave out the presidents official political endorsement of CVS' decision to stop selling tobacco products, then it would appear to have no basis. But, if the president was really concerned about saving lives, stopping the US Military from blowing people up around the world should be where he starts, not with US smokers.
Sorry, butter and salt have been banned, would you like some hemp oil instead?
We are advised NOT to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works.
I would say the average citizen knows tobacco may be harmful, and think Advil is completely safe. Until they have liver damage.
WOuld you really say that??? In my lifetime, cigarettes went from being safe to being killers. The same way with DDT, Asbestos and hundreds more.
For most people, Advil used as directed is safe. Cigarettes are not safe for anyone at any dose.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Has the FDA approved butter and salt for public consumption?
Yes. They are safe products as meant to be used. Even WATER can be toxic if used to excess. Cigarettes are not safe if used as intended by the manufacturer or at any dose.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Smoking and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease: review of the epidemiological studies. Fratiglioni L, Wang HX. Author information
Abstract The relationship between smoking and neurological diseases has always been controversial. Even the expected association between smoking and increased risk for cerebrovascular disease has been debated for years. It was at the end of the 1980s that smoking became definitively accepted as a risk factor for ischemic stroke. More recently, two other neurological diseases have been studied in relation to smoking: Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Many epidemiological studies have found a highly significant negative association between cigarette smoking and these two neurodegenerative disorders. The risk of AD or PD in nonsmokers has generally been about twice that of smokers. That is, patients with AD or PD are approximately 50% less likely to have smoked cigarettes during their lifetime than are age- and gender-matched controls. Alternatively, cigarette smokers are 50% less likely to have PD or AD than are age- and gender-matched nonsmokers. This statistically significant negative association has been interpreted as suggesting that cigarette smoking exerts an undefined, biologic, neuroprotective influence against the development of PD and AD. A review of all studies that either support or refute this hypothesis is presented separately for PD and AD.
Nitric oxide mediates a therapeutic effect of nicotine in ulcerative colitis. Green JT, Richardson C, Marshall RW, Rhodes J, McKirdy HC, Thomas GA, Williams GT. Author information
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Ulcerative colitis is a condition of nonsmokers in which nicotine is of therapeutic benefit.
AIMS: To examine the in vitro effect of nicotine on colonic smooth muscle activity and the role of nitric oxide (NO) as a mediator.
METHODS: Nicotine, 1-10 microM, was administered to strips of circular muscle from the distal sigmoid colon of 9 patients with active ulcerative colitis and 18 with colorectal cancer. The effect of electrical field stimulation (EFS) was examined before nicotine was added. Finally L-NAME, a NO synthetase inhibitor, was added before nicotine was administered again.
RESULTS: Muscle strips developed similar spontaneous resting tone. In response to EFS, ulcerative colitis tissue developed lower tensions than the controls. Nicotine significantly reduced the resting tone and peak tension after EFS, with a greater effect in controls. With L-NAME, peak tensions were increased more in ulcerative colitis than controls, and nicotine produced a much smaller reduction.
CONCLUSIONS: Nicotine reduces circular muscle activity, predominantly through the release of nitric oxide-this appears to be 'up-regulated' in active ulcerative colitis. These findings may explain some of the therapeutic benefit from nicotine (and smoking) in ulcerative colitis and may account for the colonic motor dysfunction in active disease.
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