We are in the middle of a great debate over the future of health care. Some Americans are proposing how health care is administered to individuals based on personal lifestyles such as smoking. I only learned this summer that the federal movement against smoking—which began decades ago—has nothing to do with health care or saving lives. It has to do with lobbying.
In fact, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation didn’t pay $200 million to Congress members to ban smoking; it paid $446 million from 1991 to 2003 to ban smoking! I checked it out; the RWJF is a front for Johnson & Johnson.
That’s right: Johnson & Johnson, the world’s biggest health-equipment maker lobbied to ban smoking so the company could make money helping people quit.
If this is how the federal government runs health care, I do not want it.
Daniel Barker
Lakeland, Fla.
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