OBITUARIES
Ruth Roemer, a pioneer in public health law who led efforts to regulate tobacco use and expand women's reproductive rights, died...She was 89.
((Not bad for a former smoker))

She...prodded the World Health Organization to focus on tobacco control issues.

She also inspired advocates...including eliminating obesity and fighting discrimination against people with AIDS.

Born Ruth Joy Rosenbaum...Roemer grew up in a family with socialist leanings and described herself as a radical from an early age.

She majored in English at her father's alma mater, Cornell, but switched fields after witnessing the rise of fascism in Europe during a tour there with the American Student Union in 1936.
((ASU=Commie lovers))

"I came back knowing I had to do something relevant to the social conditions...and this terrible threat of fascism in the world,"...

During the last two decades, Roemer concentrated on reducing tobacco use globally.

Roemer herself had been a heavy cigarette smoker, until her husband persuaded her to stop in 1961. She switched to smoking pipes until she was able to give up smoking entirely in 1972.

A decade later, she wrote a book, published by the WHO, that guided countries trying to craft tobacco control policies.

In 1993, she teamed up with Allyn Taylor of the University of Maryland law school to produce a document that outlined what would become the world's first public health treaty — the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

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Call me anti-social, but I don't give a damn what Ruth died from, how long she lived, or what she did (if anything) behind closed doors. I just don't give a crap. And yet I consider myself a better person than her even though she cared about every G-D person on earth.

In my world YOU pick what makes you happy. In Ruth's world SHE picks for you.

Burn in Hell, bitch.

Living in Comrade Roemer's world

Taken from her acceptance speech for an INWAT Award

Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, 17 November 2003

I am deeply honored by the prestigious 2003 Life-Time Achievement Award that the International Network of Women Against Tobacco has generously bestowed on me...

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To achieve the goals of a smoke-free society, future legislation on the supply side will need to be directed:
To ban all advertising and sponsorship;
To require strong, rotating, health warnings with pictures on all tobacco products, with package inserts;
To ban sales of tobacco products in pharmacies and food stores;
To require licensing of retailers of tobacco;
To ban smoking in films and require strong anti-smoking messages in cinemas;
To control smuggling and illicit trade in tobacco by marked packages, full tracing of shipments of cigarettes, and other measures;
To provide incentives for crop substitution to decrease the supply of tobacco;
To regulate the tobacco industry from product manufacture to retail sale.
On the demand side, future legislation will need to be directed:
To increase taxes and allocate at least 20% of the revenue to tobacco control;
To fund cessation programs;
To eliminate disparities in tobacco use and protect priority populations-youth, women and minorities;
To fund media campaigns and counter-advertising in order to resist tobacco industry tactics;
To ban smoking in all public places, workplaces and all shared space, including restaurants,
bars, beaches, parks, sporting events, etc.;
To raise the legal age for purchase of cigarettes to 21, abolish cigarette vending machines,
prohibit free samples, and prohibit —brand stretching“.

Ultimate dismantling of the tobacco industry. I join some far-seeing tobacco control experts
in their vision of the future, which includes dismantling the tobacco industry.

Our challenge for the next 25 years is to achieve this balance of tobacco control strategies in every
country of the world.

And she was worried about Hitler?

Ashes to ashes.