I have never felt God more in my five years of fighting the tobacco industry than in this experience. I absolutely couldn't believe it. We both actually found the business cards our parents had exchanged and we both carry it in our wallets as good luck charms.
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It dawned on me that we didn't have any national meeting, much less an organization, for youth that were fighting the tobacco industry.Katherine Klem
Tobacco kills more Americans every year than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. If I'm going to work on any issue in public health, then this is the one. Fighting the tobacco industry is honestly just part of my identity -- it's who I am, it's what I do. It embodies so much of what I want my life to be about.
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Eventually, this may mean we actually get college students to run for state and local office. There have definitely been instances of college students being elected to public office before. And, to my knowledge, they didn't have one capstone social justice issue like this to run on.
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Honestly, I was so amazed -- they were doing far more powerful things than we were doing in Kentucky. How could we not pull all these groups together and fight with one voice
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Tobacco companies wouldn't spend 4.2 million per day marketing in the U.S. if advertisements didn't change the way people viewed their product.
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I had this pile of documents that exposed how this industry was trying to hook people to killing themselves and to make a profit, and then I was seeing this incredibly tangible way to fight back and prevent the tobacco industry from leading people to their deaths.
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