S. Paul Ehrlich, 72, acting Surgeon General under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter and U.S. representative to the World Health Organization, died of pneumonia Jan. 6 at Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla., near where he lived for the past eight years. He had multiple sclerosis.

Dr. Ehrlich...was among six Surgeons General who in 1994 urged Congress to ban smoking in public buildings and to enact stricter controls on secondhand smoke and the sale and advertising of tobacco.

He also appeared with other former officeholders to oppose a proposed federal policy responding to the spread of AIDS by requiring minors to get parental consent before receiving contraceptives and information on birth control.

He retired after the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 1981.

Boring story

Gee, MS. They say smokers are more at risk of MS than nonsmokers. Kind of ironic.

I like how he wanted to restrict "the sale and advertising of tobacco," but wanted kids to have access to contraceptives and information on birth control without their parents knowing. %^$# hypocrite if you ask me.

Another nonsmoker dying prematurely from a nonsmoking related disease ... over a million and half of them do every year. (Anything less than a thousand years, is premature ... just ask any anti.)

(Anything less than a thousand years, is premature ... just ask any anti.)

Just had this discussion with my (formerly smoking) Mom tonight---if a smoker dies at age 79, it's because of smoking. If they're not a smoker, it's what? natural causes?

The PC looneys are apparently under the narcissistic notion that by eliminating causes of death, one by one, from their lives they will never die.

Stilldreamn -- "Just had this discussion with my (formerly smoking) Mom tonight---if a smoker dies at age 79, it's because of smoking. If they're not a smoker, it's what? natural causes?"

Yes, you have it right except that a nonsmoker who once got a whiff of ETS is doomed; therefore ALL death is due to tobacco. Prior to Europeans "discovering" the New World, nobody outside of North & South America ever died.