"Kennedy didn’t mention the health impacts of smoking once
"Trump asked whether soldiers could shoot peaceful protestors in their legs during demonstrations after the death of George Floyd in 2020. "
in last month’s Make America Healthy Again report assessing the biggest threats to Americans’ health. "
"Attempting to combat chronic disease without tobacco control is like attempting a triathlon without a bicycle,”
said Brian King, whom Kennedy pushed out of his job as the Food and Drug Administration’s top tobacco regulator in April.
“You’re destined for failure before leaving the starting line.”
"when Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) quizzed Kennedy
about that during a budget hearing last month, asking him to name the “No. 1 cause of preventable death in America today,”
Kennedy was stumped.
“I’m not sure what you’re talking about,” he said."
'The FDA estimated the plan to limit nicotine levels
in cigarettes proposed during the Biden administration would avert
4.3 million deaths
and prevent 48 million youth and young adults from starting habitual cigarette smoking
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/rfk-smoking-maha-tobacco-cigarettes-00394863
by the end of the century if implemented.
And banning menthol cigarettes
in the U.S. would cut 324,000 to 654,000 smoking-attributable deaths by 2060"
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"Some in the state have taken to calling her “Joni Hearse"
"Iowa senator Joni Ernst now infamously told a town hall audience last month that
“we’re all going to die” .
in response to concerns about proposed cuts to Medicaid in Donald Trump’s
signature spending bil
the US president’s signature spending bill, which would likely
strip Medicaid coverage from 8.7 million people
and leave 7.6 million more Americans uninsured."
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