Comments on: WED AM: Henningfielld Withstands Bernick Barrage (with timely assists from Goldfarb and Judge) http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2004/12/01/wed-am-henningfielld-withstands-bernick-barrage-with-timely-assists-from-goldfarb-and-kessler/ Blogging U.S. vs. Philip Morris, Inc. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:04:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: krueger http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2004/12/01/wed-am-henningfielld-withstands-bernick-barrage-with-timely-assists-from-goldfarb-and-kessler/#comment-94 krueger Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:09:48 +0000 http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/2004/12/01/wed-am-henningfielld-withstands-bernick-barrage-with-timely-assists-from-goldfarb-and-kessler/#comment-94 One of Bernick's arguments: if Big Tobacco had disclosed what it knew about nicotine and addiction, it would have made no difference. Joseph Califano, secretary of health, education and welfare from 1977 to 1979, puts it this way: "If we had known in 1964 what we know now, we could have turned our best minds and energy then to arresting this killer." "As President Jimmy Carter, Surgeon General Julius Richmond and I have since said, if we had known then what the tobacco companies knew then about the addictive qualities of cigarettes, we would have moved, as David Kessler did 20 years later, to have them declared a drug-delivery device. Measured in terms of the ravages of Big Tobacco's products, that was more than 6 million lives (and many more millions of disabling cancer, emphysema and cardiovascular disease cases) ago." It is my view that saving millions of lives is making a difference. One of Bernick’s arguments: if Big Tobacco had disclosed what it knew about nicotine and addiction, it would have made no difference.

Joseph Califano, secretary of health, education and welfare from 1977 to 1979, puts it this way:

“If we had known in 1964 what we know now, we could have turned our best minds and
energy then to arresting this killer.”

“As President Jimmy Carter, Surgeon General Julius Richmond and I have since said, if we had known then what the tobacco companies knew then about the addictive qualities of cigarettes, we would have moved, as David Kessler did 20 years later, to have them declared a drug-delivery device. Measured in terms of the ravages of Big Tobacco’s products, that was more than 6 million lives (and many more millions of disabling cancer, emphysema and cardiovascular disease cases) ago.”

It is my view that saving millions of lives is making a difference.

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