But he has not worked to help increase protections for children, adults, and the unborn to escape the deadly health effects of environmental tobacco smoke , nor to enforce the laws already in place. Like Gilmore and Earley, Hager has accepted many thousands of dollars from the tobacco industry, and Hager owns stock in both American and British tobacco companies. Like Gilmore and Earley, Hager participated in the Tobacco Summit, to help tobacco farmers and workers, but Hager, thus far, has done nothing to help the victims of tobacco. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tobacco use kills more people every year in the USA than are killed by alcohol, other drugs, automobile accidents, homicide, and suicide combined. More than 400,000 Americans die each year of tobacco related illnesses, and an additional 60,000 adults and children die each year from environmental tobacco smoke related illnesses.
Many college students suffer from environmental tobacco smoke .
Earley has done television commercials about adults helping children, but by his actions, Earley himself hypocritically supports tobacco abuse of children, adults, and the unborn . Earley did not even support two bills in 1999 to protect the public health by requiring no-smoking in ambulances, and in public rest rooms of restaurants.