Thanks. That post is pure opinion and not based on the usual stats and numbers that give a good basis for an accurate analysis, though.
Basically, it's just my opinion that BT are liars but everybody knows it, versus BP who are the world's largest criminal cartel (from a legal perspective).
The really impressive thing about pharma's operation is how everyone thinks of them as a respectable business, instead of the 21st century equivalent of the mafia, which is a more accurate way of viewing their operation. They own the lives of hundreds of millions of people and have the ability to write your death certificate. Big tobacco never had anything like this influence on everyone's lives; we've signed that away to unknown operators in Geneva and Luxembourg and Douglas I.o.M. They buy government staffers and medics like you buy fish fingers at the mall.
Without the large sums of money being thrown at tobacco control by BP the anti-tobacco/nicotine movement would be a shadow of what it is today. Every group out there opposed to THR is heavily founded by BP. Many of them where started by money from BP and wouldn't exist without them. There really is no question who the real enemy of THR is.
On the other hand the incompetence of tobacco companies continues. R.J.Reynolds had a golden opportunity to change the direction of tobacco use when they came out with Camel snus in the US. Instead of following the example of Sweden with there several hundred years of experience, they created an overly sweet, low nicotine product that doesn't hold a candle to the Swedish product. Marlboro snus was even worse. The second generation is slightly better but still a long way from what it should be. If Sweden had to depend on US made snus they would still have a 20% plus smoking rate instead of the 11% they now have.
I wonder if it is to much to hope that BT has learned their lesson with the lousy job they did with snus and put out an electronic cigarette that is actually a viable alternative to smoking.