ee EE Eee ETE me eee eee EOE ee eee eee eee ee -_ ie ae i —eeeeeeeee ~ The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 12, 1994 - B3 ow to fight the tobacco giants HESE DAYS most people don’t smoke, Miller beer, or Miller Light Minute Rice And, of course, the Miracle Whip reason for that is Shake ’n Bake most people know that smoking Tang is bad for you! ‘Stove Top Stuffing Last year in the Skeena Health ~Unit-and in -B.C, overall, lung RJ. Reynolds Cancer accounted for the most deaths of any kind of cancer, _ Cancer is a close second to heart disease as our number one A-I steak sauce any Fleischmann’s margarine any Nabisco cereal Aylmer fruits, vegetables and Did you know Children’s Child Protection Unit assesses and treats physically and sexually able, abused children and helps other B.C. hospitals set up similar programs? Guilin Combine ONS . Children’s Hospital ——.._ Putting smiles back where they belong, Jasak Logging Ltd. killer. ; SOUpS on $ ; cath rate for most types of Blue Bonnet margarine D H ll & S C t t Ltd -cancer.is stable or declining, but Christie, Dad’s, & Peek Freans u ons on rac tn , lung cancer is increasing, : = cookies i . ‘For this and a lot of other rea- . GERRY KASTEN Del Monte fruits, vegetables & ‘sons, most of us don’t want to puddings F 95 Ye f L . ‘give our business to tobacco com- Tell them you feel that com- ~ Grey Poupon Mustard dl gg i] 1g i panies, . panics. that make cigarettes Life Savers . Or c S 0 0 MW © But why write about this ina shouldn’{ be making JeiI-0, too, Magic baking powder , th T nutrition column? And that you’ze backing up Muik-Bone dog biscuits a I “The sad truth of today’s big your feelings by not purchasing Planters nuts c erTace Ca. business world is that you can their products. Sugar Twin hardly avoid buying from a big cigarette company. Why? Because cigaretle com- ‘panies sell food! *. Phillip Mortis, the tobacco -gianl, makes Marlboro cigarettes. But did you also know that they ‘make Maxwell House Coffee? Or ‘that they make Kraft Cheese? RJ, Reynolds makes Winston and Camel smokes, But now ‘they’ve diversified, and make ‘Planters Nuts, Grey Poupon ~-Mustard, Shredded Wheat and a, lot of your favourite breakfast. cereals, . They’ve even changed their: name. to the. more innocuous "RJR. Nabisco”. . ’. These are the same companie that still insist that cigarettes “don’t cause lung cancer. They complain that they’re taxed so hard that they can’t do _ business. They also would like “you to believe that making foods Will help to ‘‘wean them away”’ _ from making cigarettes. . . Bul I can’t believe that: In the States, cigarettes account for ‘about’ 40 per cent of Philip : Morris’ net sales, but about 66 “per cent of their profits, Sounds like a pretty profitable business. Profitable cienough ‘that * -companiés donate huge:sums to _ American politicians who support the tobacco lobby. A notable name.on this list of tobacco sponsored politicians is American Congressman Jesse Helms, So what can you do, if you - don’t want to support the Tobac- co industry? - Don’t buy their products. I’ve ~ provided:a list below of some of _ the most common products from these companies. Whether you buy them or not is a personal choice, but I think that consumers should be aware of the "products Ihey buy. Or, you can write to the com- ‘panies, and let them know why you’re not doing business with + {hem 6 lin 5 Ct CANADIANS - CAN'T BREATHE PROPERLY But you can beat the odds on lung disease. hs) Arm yourself with the Cc latest . lung facts from the B.C. Lung Association, Support advanced research ond province- wide community education programs sponsored by your Lung Association. B.C. Lung Association Box 34009, Station D “* Vancouver, B,C, V6s 4M2 ‘ ‘(Advertising space donated a > bythis publication) week, for some nutrition advice for those of you who are quitting nutritionist at the Skeena Health smoking, Unit. For those of you thinking of Phillip Marris quitting, there's a Cold Turkey all Kraft products day support workshop open to the any Post cereal public on Wednesday, January 19 any General Foods product at 7:30 p.m. in Room 318 at the Cheez Whiz oO Coast Inn of the West. Topics in- Cracker Barrel . ‘clude nutrition, the patch, and Jell-O . — how te beat cravings, And you've Kool-Aid . got a shot at winning a frozen Maxwell Hause coffee - turkey as a door prize. Sagi: ate EE that! thése: Stay tuned to this space next ‘Gerry Kasten is the community a Write your own Coupo. PRINT IN ANY -BEEFTEM, 2, Pe Mie eet a fa pea Bes iy ApS AAR, OE Roar syne en ad nls With this coupon you will receive $1.00 off the purchase of any Beef item 1 by printing the item above. 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