From: Joel Cummings [joelcummings@jcn.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:47 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Public Health over more corporate power

Dear FDA,
    If you truly want citizens' opinions on whether to treat corporate 1st amendment rights as a higher priority than public health, here goes:
    In the minds of my family members, corporate pecuniary profit-makers are already too powerful.  Witness that tobacco advertising is still legal though it is addictive and a major health threat.  When you finally obtain jurisdiction over it, advertising regulation would be a must.  Marketing anything to children involves sophisticated methods.  Don't you care to get involved in limiting these techniques rather than allowing them even more leeway to wage damaging campaigns?  The FDA, clearly, should not be influenced by the corporations' attempts to buy rights to advertise over the public health issues that were the reason you were first created.
Sincerely,
Joel Cummings and Family
1999 Pounds Road
Festus MO 63028