September 18th,
2014 Thursday
To: Walmart Stores, Inc.
Chief Executive
Officer,
Carl Douglas
Mcmillion
850 Cherry Avenue
San Bruno,
California 94066
From: Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson,
Disabled Worker, Philanthropist,
Businessman, Writer, Advocate.
Post Office Box 42878
Philadelphia, Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania 19101-2878
Phone: 1 (215)
921-2065
Dear Mr. Mcmillion:
I hope you and your
family and friends in the corporate are doing well, because if you do well and
are generous, caring and giving, we all end up doing well over the long
run. I have been writing some of the
major Pharmaceutical companies and mentioning the fact that it is a really
rather odd thing that our Pharmaceutical companies in the United States sell
cigarettes when they are charged with and supposedly dedicated to making us all
better, well and healed. I am sure I don’t need to tell you of the very telling
and devastating health risks involved with the traditions of smoking
cigarettes. My feeling is, and it is a
growing concern in our country, my feeling is we don’t need our Pharmaceutical
companies selling cigarettes when they are such a danger to health. Such risks are especially acute with young
people who might start smoking at the age of 20 and smoke for 13 years. This
has a very bad and deleterious impact on health in general, one’s ability to be
strong and agile, and one’s ability to avoid
lung cancer and related health risks. I wrote CVS Pharmacy and they had
the courage and had the sensitivity to eventually take the cigarettes off the shelves
and replace them with smoking cessation and smoking alternative products. One thing I have NOT written to the Pharmaceutical
companies about this issue is that I lost my Mother, MRs. Jessie Mae Thornton
Gibson to lung cancer [emphysema] and when I was a child I used to go to the corner
store and buy Her a pack of Spring cigarettes quite often. I think that memory couples with my own health
concerns surrounding eating and preparing food for the better nutrition idea
has caused me to continue this letter writing campaign. I hope Wal Mart can also think very long and
hard about what they are doing by not offering more products that are low in
salt and sugar. At least offer an
alternative so people can be courageous and make a healthy choice if they so
choose. This will work out in helping
lower health insurance costs for the corporate structure—which WalMart is a
part of—as well as decrease the problems of health risks that can be
burdensome, costly and sometimes even devastating to the American Family
because of personal loss. I thank you for reading this letter and I am very
thankful that you have a customer service division where people can write to
give suggestions. I would like to offer
my services to you as a consultant if you wish to hire me. I would have to work from my Philadelphia
home, but I'm sure I could offer some future-thinking suggestions that would
help WalMart turn their ship around and stop going against the Public’s health
Spirit and start adding significantly to public health and public wellbeing. I will be adding a resume to this letter, so
it may take me a few days from the time I’m writing this to actually mail the
letter and resume. Be well and Stay
well,
Peace &
Blessings,
Mr. Tracy C. Gibson
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