Subject: Re Smoking and Cancer
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 213337 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
I am happy to forward the following public appeal from a member of our
group. (I hope that by the time this noble effort is translated into
action, someone will add the importance of RESEARCH FOR THE PREVENTION of
cancer!!! Not just research for the cure...... Research for the
"prevention" is likely to lead straight to the EMF problem......)
Cheerio.........
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html
................................It is better to light a single candle ...
than to curse the darkness...............................................
ANYBODY TO ADD TO THIS EMF-L LIST!!!!!!
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 21:29:55 -0800
From: Lorna Wilson
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Hi Roy:
Please forward the following to your group.......
Lorna
Subject: OEM: Re: Smoking and Cancer
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Coming Together to Conquer Cancer
July 1997
An Open Letter to America:
An enemy lives among us. It's "cancer" the name we give hundreds of
different life-threatening and life-altering diseases that will be
diagnosed in one of two men and one of three women during their
lifetime. No other disease threatens more lives of Americans than
cancer. Virtually everyone we know will be touched in some way by this
disease. The time has come for us to unite to defeat it.
On April 7, 1997, talk show host, Larry King, CBS News anchor, Paula
Zahn, and cancer survivors, Sam Donaldson, Michael Milken, Ellen
Stovall, Robert Urich, and Morton Downey, Jr., made a commitment during
CNN's "Larry King Live," to be part of a national grassroots campaign
and March to conquer cancer. Since that time, another notable cancer
survivor, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has joined this grassroots
initiative and will be the Honorary Chair for The March. As we gather
momentum for this campaign and The March, many more individuals and
representatives of national organizations have called to say they want
to be part of such an event. We want to add your name to theirs and the
millions more who will join us over the next year. We are writing to ask
you to become a part of a national campaign to eradicate cancer. We must
remain silent no more!
Why a March? The sobering facts about cancer tell us it's time!
Here is why:
In the time it will take you to read this letter, 10 people will be
diagnosed with cancer and 4 people will die from cancer.
**Today alone, more than 1,500 American adults will die from cancer.
**This year, nearly 1.5 million people living in the United States will
be diagnosed with cancer and half a million will die from cancer.
**Nearly 9,000 children will be diagnosed with cancer this year and
almost 2,000 will die, making cancer the leading cause of death for
children under the age of 15.
Where is our public outrage over these incidence rates and cancer
deaths? Every year we lose more than half a million Americans to cancer
more than ALL of the United States soldiers killed in ALL of the wars
of this century. As one of our greatest military leaders and cancer
survivors General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has said, "When the American
people see how woefully under funded cancer research is, they will be
mad as hell."
Mad as hell we are! Twenty-five years ago when President Richard Nixon
signed the National Cancer Act, he declared a "war on cancer." As the
current president of the American Association for Cancer Research, Dr.
Donald Coffey, said during recent testimony before Congress on federal
funding for cancer research, "Senator, we haven't been funding a war; the
truth is, we haven't even been funding a skirmish!"
Federal funding for cancer research amounts to a mere $10 per person
per year -- less than the cost of a tank of gasoline.
The President's 1998 budget request for cancer research is $260 million
below the conservative recommended budget prepared by a panel of experts
in cancer research and does not even keep pace with the rate of
inflation.
It is time to come together. It is time to speak with one voice. It is
time to awaken our elected officials to the realities of cancer. It is
time to launch a public awareness campaign to eradicate this disease and
demand responsible public policies toward cancer. All people with cancer
must have the right to receive the best possible care. The country must
be educated about what constitutes "quality cancer care" and what needs
to be done to ensure that all Americans have access to this essential
care.
Between now and next September, we will bring a public awareness
campaign to communities all across the United States. We will alert
everyone to the facts about this disease and bring individuals and
organizations together around key messages they can use with their
community leaders and national officials. The campaign will culminate
with The March: a public call to action in our nation^Òs capital,
Washington, D.C.,on Saturday, September 26, 1998. The March will bring
together countless numbers of people speaking with a unified and
powerful voice and echoed by thousands more in communities throughout
the country, where we will demand Congress and the President to make a
renewed commitment to lessen the burden of cancer on our society. This
commitment must include significant increases in research funding and
more responsible public policies that afford all people diagnosed with
cancer access to quality cancer care.
The March will tell the American people what is happening, enable them
to tell their elected officials what they expect, and act as a catalyst
for change by providing the means for their voices to be heard. The
March is a call to action. The time is now. Please join us.
Sincerely,
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Honorary Chair of The March
Sam Donaldson, ABC News & survivor
Ellen Stovall, Executive Director for the National Coalition for Cancer
Survivorship & survivor
Michael Milken, Chairman of CaPCURE & survivor
Robert Urich, Actor & survivor
Morton Downey, Jr., Talk show host & survivor
Larry King, Host, CNN's "Larry King Live"
(... and a growing list of national and community leaders)
We Want to Hear From You.......
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 505
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
VOICE: (301) 650-8868 FAX: (301) 565-9670
EMAIL: info@cansearch.org
WEB: www.cansearch.org
All Rights Reserved.
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