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Mike Sawyer writes
Dr. Ana M. Viamonte Ros M.D., MPH
Secretary & Surgeon General
Department of Health
Letter

Personal thank you note from Dr. Donna E. Shalala the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Note

Published: 02.15.2007

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/opinion/41061.php

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The Tucson Citizen Newspaper
Tucson, Arizona

'Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends'

"Against the Wind" by Bob Seger seems to apply to my life's journey the past 20 years.

In 1986, as a young mayor, I proposed a public smoking ban for my city. I was laughed at.

In 1987, I sought to work with a major nonprofit health organization in Alabama. "Too fanatical," the state director told me.

In 1988, I ran for a county office on a platform of "health consciousness." I lost.

In 1989, I gave a "tobacco kills" sermon to my Burley, Ky., congregation. Got tossed the next Sunday.

In 1998, I created a kids and teen sports league called SMOKING KILLS. "Holier than thou liberal," Rush Limbaugh called me during his National Radio Commentary.

In 2006, I interviewed for a job promoting health while demoting tobacco with a state health department. "Too passionate to work within our bureaucracy," the regional director told me.

"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then," Seger sings.

Mike Sawyer

Birmingham, Ala.

Mayor Mike Sawyer starts Worlds First Petition to ban smoking in public buildings.
January 30, 1987

Sawyer created the world's first health promoting kid's baseball team/league name in Kentucky in 1998 with the name SMOKING KILLS.

Rush Limbaugh on his National Commentary blasted Mike Sawyer and The Smoking Kills Baseball teams of Kentucky in July of 1998, and Rush chose to replay this on the first Monday of 1999. Sawyer was able to record a copy of this National Commentary from WLW-AM 700 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Jay Leno joked about Mike Sawyer and the SMOKING KILLS team name on his Tonight Show in 1998.

Paul Harvey reported about SMOKING KILLS team names on his National Radio News Program.

Mike Sawyer
January 17, 2006
Red Level, Alabama
Birthplace of US Surgeon General Luther L. Terry

SMOKING KILLS ALL-STATE KENTUCKY 14-UNDER BASEBALL TEAM
CREVE COEUR, MISSOURI
LABOR DAY WEEKEND 1999

I would love to speak to your corporation, church, youth conference, nonprofit, school, city, and civic organizations on health and fitness. Homeless shelters. Especially state health employees on why we should be "Too Passionate"
Will speak to any Big and Brutal Tobacco stockholder's gathering.

With compassion,

Mike Sawyer
Executive Director
I Will Never Use Tobacco, Inc.501 (c) 3
205-515-1560
Birmingham, Alabama
TobaccoKills2000@aol.com

Published: 02.15.2007

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The Louisville Courier-Journal Newspaper November 21, 1989 Mike on South Broad Way Street Lexington, Kentucky Opening day of Tobacco Auction in Kentucky

The Louisville Courier-Journal Newspaper
November 21, 1989
Mike on South Broad Way Street
Lexington, Kentucky
Opening day of Tobacco Auction in Kentucky