Where's Ralph?

Back inward 2011 in addition to 2012, the CEO of Steward Health Care System was another corporate official who took middle stage.

But now, nosotros facial expression upwardly a novel laid upwardly of issues calling for executive leadership, equally laid upwardly forth inward the New York Times:

The CVS Health Corporation said on Tuesday that it would resign from the U.S. of A. of America Chamber of Commerce afterward revelations that the sleeping room in addition to its unusual affiliates were project a global lobbying get against antismoking laws.

CVS, which final yr stopped selling tobacco products inward its stores, said the lobbying activeness ran counter to its mission to amend world health.

Last week, Harvard wellness policy skillful John McDonough said that the Chamber deserves "shame in addition to disgrace" until the grouping stops its piece of job on behalf "global merchants of death."

Where's the CEO?

The principal executive of the Steward Health Care System, physician Ralph de la Torre, serves on the board of the chamber. In a contestation final week, Brooke Thurston, a spokeswoman for Steward, said: “If the sleeping room is inward fact advocating for increased smoking, nosotros produce non concur alongside them on this world wellness issue.”

That's it?

Steward's possessor Cerberus faced only about tough world policy in addition to fiscal issues inward the yesteryear alongside its ownership of a major gun manufacturer.  Ater the killing of Connecticut schoolchildren, it promised to divest those assets.

Tobacco sales are non synonomous alongside guns, but tobacco is widely recognized equally a major world wellness hazard.  It should live on pretty slowly for the CEO to say that Steward wants no component subdivision inward encouraging the move of tobacco products or inward supporting an arrangement that opposes reasonable controls on tobacco sales.

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