From: joseph strebler [strebler1978@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:48 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov


I'm writing regarding the recent expansion of protections for "commercial 
speech". Corporations are considered artificial persons which may protect 
their right to free speech, but doing so makes the speech a lecture without 
opportunity to respond or object as corporations are so rich with huge 
advertising budgets which the general public cannot match. This keeps 
children, who are vulnerable to the psychological trickery which the 
sophisticated advertisers employ, subjected to messages which will not 
benefit their well-being, since most advertising of consumables for children 
consists of junk food ads, which in turn exacerbates the immense obesity and 
diabetes 2 crises in our nation.
The FDA needs to serve the interests of the Public, not protect the ability 
of corporations to hawk their cigarettes and junk food to a trusting public. 
The FDA as part of the government needs to protect the public from corporate 
interests.
thank you, joseph strebler
750 font blvd #A-507
san francisco, ca 94132

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