From: sarah butler [saramb_73@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:09 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: First ammendment rights for corporations

Please limit the expansion of commercial speech. The
marketing onslaught affects the lives and health of
our communities and children. We have a ten month old
daughter and it seems to me the only way to protect
her completely from advertising would be to move to
another country! Advertisers are extending their
reaches to younger and younger children - if we limit
the amount of violence, sexual themes and
inappropriate language children are exposed to in film
and daytime TV, why not limit the manipulation of
their desires and interests? 

This would be recognized as a national health crisis
if the affects of advertising were examined carefully
- it contributes to the explosion of diabetes, the
misunderstanding of the benefits of pharmaceuticals
and it diminishes the quality of time we have with our
families.

The FDA's job is to ensure that we are protected and
that our rights as indivduals are as strong if not
stronger than large corporations. Please do your jobs
honestly and with integrity and do not extend first
ammendment rights to corporations.

Sarah Butler.

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