SHOOT: Good to see Lance's tough stance on tobacco use. Smokers are amongst the thickest people out there. They get cancer and then they're like innocent puppy's - "How did this happen to me?"
Cancer is projected to be the leading cause of death worldwide by 2010. This global public health crisis will claim more people than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. In 2009, it will take 8 million lives around the world, more than 560,000 of them American. Added to the human suffering is the economic toll cancer takes on our economy: more than $200 billion every year in lost productivity and medical costs in the U.S. alone. Needless to say, America can’t afford that kind of loss, especially as we steer our way out of a recession. Beating cancer will require significant, sustained federal investment in research and prevention, and more access for more Americans to quality, affordable healthcare nationwide. It will require an overhaul of our broken healthcare and insurance system. And it will mean taking on tobacco, a deadly substance responsible for one-third of all cancer deaths.
Make cancer a priority now. |
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