Prohibitionists lie about snus, tell Swedes that Big Tobacco is disrespecting Swedish culture with snus advertisements

[Bill Godshall]

Check out this Swedish television interview (most is in English) of two women from the American Cancer Society (translation referred to it as Fund) telling Swedes that American tobacco companies are disrespecting Swedish culture with Snus advertisements, and falsely claim the “evidence is still being gathered, nobody knows for sure” when asked if snus is less hazardous than cigarettes.
Nyhetsmorgon: De kämpar mot snusets intåg i USA - TV4 Play

It appears that the ACS women were sent to Sweden to indoctrinate and train youth to protest against tobacco and tobacco companies.

 

[Tom09]

Appears that this program is directly funded by Pfizer. Quelle surprise.

The American Cancer Society has received a grant from the Pfizer Foundation to collaborate with a Stockholm-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) on a program aimed at raising tobacco awareness among youth.

Source: ACS blog on last year's trip to Sweden

 

[Bill Godshall]

Congratulations Tom.

You found the smoking gun document delineating Pfizer's funding of this ACS campaign to protect Pfizer's sales and profits from market competition by snus.

 

[Ande]

Wow. Just WOW.

Not only are they working overtime to make sure that Sweden's success in reducing smoking related deaths doesn't catch on internationally...they're actually trying to reverse it in Sweden.

I am speechless.

ande

 

[MTV]

Don't be speechless...this is what we are up against...get angry...they would prefer that people die and their profits are high

 

[BardicDruid]

Well if you remember just back in 2009 they were all against smoking, said nothing about nicotine. Today they say nothing about smoking, it's all about nicotine. If you read through they're BS they're claiming that nicotine is as dangerous as smoking, all they've done is drop smoking and inserted nicotine in they're new campaign's.

 

[sqirl1]

yeah because nicotine is a deadly poison narcotic comparable to coke and smack and it's more destructive to the body than rattle snake venom right? oh and don't forget anybody who uses it is junkie defending habbit lol had gewd rezin to keep using drug because nicotine drug abuders r stupid lol

 

[DC2]

Every vaper needs to read this thread and understand the ramifications.

Don't be speechless...this is what we are up against...get angry...they would prefer that people die and their profits are high.

And anybody who isn't angry simply hasn't read enough yet.

Simply put, the whole thing is an outrage.

 

[rothenbj]

Yup DC, that pretty well summarizes it. I got real angry that for decades I could have been told of safer alternatives by our ?non-profit?"health" associations and A. removed most of the risk B. Used products that for me are more enjoyable.

Instead they promoted "the lie", no safe alternative. Now as evidence is being provided, both clinically and anecdotally, they ignore and continue their propaganda machine.

To think that Big Tobacco can't be trusted!

 

[Ande]

I guess "speechless" is the wrong word. Fact is, I speak about this to anybody who will listen. ;-)

It's time they knew: roughly one fifth of the world's population, at least, smokes regularly. It's bad for health, but good for other things, including the incomes of a lot of companies and an awful lot of "non-profit" organisations. People in those organisations are looking for ways to maintain that circumstance- people dying, them getting paid.

And that's the simple truth- pharmas don't want you to live. They just want you to pay them.

Keep the faith, guys.

Ande