A tragedy that the Justice Department backed away from their original cessation remedy. Can you imagine what would happen if, as we projected with this plan, 1 million additional smokers quit each year -- 33 million over time?

[It is] such a tragedy that the Justice Department backed away from their original cessation remedy, ... Can you imagine what would happen if, as we projected with this plan, 1 million additional smokers quit each year 33 million over time?

These findings are extremely important, ... Some of the greatest risks to health — smoking, binge drinking, depression — are often linked and need to be better addressed by health care providers.

Spending $5 billion a year on tobacco cessation for 25 years would profoundly improve the health of Americans, ... This is why it is such a tragedy that the Justice Department backed away from their original cessation remedy. Can you imagine what would happen if, as we projected with this plan, one million additional smokers quit each year -- 33 million over time?

More and more businesses have invested in good health among their employees. It's an example of doing well for the bottom line as well as for employee health.

In fact, on May 12, 2005, the department had filed a brief arguing that the $130 billion smoking-cessation program was indeed forward-looking and would prevent and restrain future wrongful conduct by the tobacco industry.

[(I-Newswire) -] Spending $5 billion a year on tobacco cessation for 25 years would profoundly improve the health of Americans, ... This is why it is such a tragedy that the Justice Department backed away from their original cessation remedy. Can you imagine what would happen if, as we projected with this plan, one million smokers quit each year - 33 million over time?

The issue of whether the remedy was forward-looking was an old one for the Justice Department.