Health and Human Services released its first land for Tobacco Control. This plan provides a framework to rejuvenate efforts to end the epidemic. Now todays Surgeon Generals report underscores the essential commitment initially outlined in that plan, and include high impact pass media campaigns and increased efforts to prevent kids from being embargoed by images of smoking in the movies, fully funded, comprehensives statewide Tobacco Control programs at cdc recommended levels, higher prices on cigarettes and other Tobacco Products that will drive down consumption, complete protection of the entire population, not just half the population, to a indoor policies. Effective implementation of fda tobacco product regulation authorities, full access to sufficient counseling and fda approved medications were smokers, and this list is just a start. Most important of all, we need committed leadership through every sector of society, leadership that will reject the andus quote as acceptable move o
Thank you so much for your efforts. Theres significant city wide efforts going on. One of the cities leading the way is the city of chicago. We are proud to be joined by chicago commissioner of Public Health. Thank you very much. Would you standup . [ applause ] one of our great partners at the federal level, assistant secretary of defense dr. Jonathan woodson. Dr. Woodson is leading an effort across the military to stop smoking and tobacco use. We can all agree that deserves some applause. Thank you dr. Woodson. [ applause ] we are pleased the local champions and statewide champions are here today. Its an example of the exciting work under way but work we need to accelerate and continue. Today, we meet at a cross roads. Over the past five decades, we are learned what it will take to end the tobacco epidemic and make the next generation tobacco free. Scientists, researchers and policymakers determined what works and the steps necessary to end the tragic epidemic. The question is, what
Gift that our enemies needed to evade us and to strike us at will. And im sure youve heard this phrase before. Johns lawyers, the head of mi6, said that our adversaries were rubbing their hands with glee. All heads of the secure the services were very clear in their evidence to the intelligence and Security Committee that you have damaged this country as a result of what you have done. Clearly other editors took the decision as well. We know its been in the the New York Times and the Washington Post, el pais, le monde and other newspapers but theyre not be forced today. Be recognized what you have done . D. Except that this has damaged the country . That this is a very criticism that i havent seen before from head of our Security Services . I think it is important context that editors of probably the worlds leading newspapers in america, the Washington Post and the New York Times took virtually identical decisions so this is not a rogue newspaper. It is cities new papers have long deal
There were lots of people on sight with signs and banners supporting people doing this civil disobedience, particularly supporting the people who got arrested. So that happened yesterday in phoenix. It went as planned, a successful protest. But then Something Else happened. A bus showed up. And a bus started to pull out of that facility that they had chained themselves to the gates of. And it was a bus that was loaded up with immigrants, who were being forcibly deported out of the country. The protest at the fence, at the gates where the people had chained themselves to the fence there, that had been a protest for Immigration Reform. The protesters were saying, stop splitting up our families, stop breaking parents and children and brothers and sisters and husbands and wives apart from each other, when their only crime is wanting to live here peacefully, together. 1. 7 Million People have been deported under president obama alone. These protesters say they want a moratorium on the depor