Why I Fight: For Regan and Paul
Author: Anita Renzetti, Project Director, Adult Cessation Services, Bay Area Community Resources, Inc.
www.bacr.org @bacrdotorg
My debonair partner Paul and I were engaged only one month when he was diagno...
Why I Fight: To End Blogs Like This
My mom and her grandchildren
I don’t want to be writing this. It makes it real.
I miss my mom so much; I don’t want it to be real.
I’m Carol. My mom died of cancer caused by a lifetime of smoking. Sh...
Why I Fight: John’s Dying Wish
The tobacco industry knows that their products kill when used as intended, and yet, they choose to continue to mass produce, market, and sell cigarettes every single day. No other company or industry does that....
Why I Fight: Marie Hepp
This is my first memory of grieving the loss of my grandpa, a visual of our family carrying for him. I drew it as a nursing student in 1992 for a homework assignment.
The 1st loved one I lost to smoking and...
Supporter Spotlight: Ray Perkins’ Journey through Local Anti-Smoking Activism
After working 8 years in the manufacturing industry, in 1972 I became disabled due to exposure to welding fumes and airborne pollutants, causing me to undergo 3 weeks of treatment at Salem (Mass.) Hospital....
Why I Fight – Pete Gachot
I figured out the hard way that tobacco is the BIG LIE of our times. Both my parents smoked, as did their parents, and many of my friends. It would have been socially advantageous for me to smoke, and I actuall...
Why I Fight: Jane’s Dad
On the Shoulders of a Giant
When I heard the news of 50 newspapers in the USA running full page ads against smoking it was a bitter-sweet moment. Let me explain why it was so personal.
My father, Frederick ...
Why I Fight: Garret Mathews
I watched Mom die from smoking-induced lung cancer. I wrote the piece because I want folks to know that even smoking only a few cigarettes a day can be fatal.
You smoke.
Betsy Mathews
Oh, not a lot. S...
Why I Fight: News/Talk Radio Host & Author Forrest Carr
My Great Cigarette Rebellion
How my mother’s simple request to run an errand changed my life.
My doctor doesn’t believe I’ve never smoked.
In January I was diagnosed with a relatively rare form of kidney c...
Why Kelsey Fights
My parents have always told me that they knew I would become a lawyer from a young age because of my favorite childhood expression- “That’s not fair!” As I got older, I never stopped feeling that some things j...
Why I Fight: Violet Dyer
Violet and her sister
I fight for the health of our future leaders, the children across the world. I do not want any child to grow up with the health struggles that I have had to endure since my early child...
Why I Fight: Kim Intino
Kim Intino and her Mother
She made every holiday special. She would fill Easter baskets with candy, carve pumpkins, make me beautiful Halloween costumes, and spend hours trimming the Christmas tree. And she...
Why I Fight
We all joined the tobacco control movement for different yet similar reasons. Whether in honor of a loved one struck down by tobacco addiction, a sense of outrage at an industry that profits from death, or a de...
