Tobacco companies use corporate social responsibility for political purposes
Katharine Barker, University of Bath, UK, August 25th.
The author describes how:
This appears to be some form of criticism of the tobacco industry, but this form of 'lobbying' is normal practice in many industries, especially the pharmaceutical industry, who are the world leaders in this field. It is hardly 'innovative' - indeed it is the standard modus operandi of the pharma industry. The piece ends with:
This commentary is hilarious considering the way the pharmaceutical industry has perverted the course of legislation and practice in the health industry by manipulation, astroturfing and pressure carried out by the fake public health groups it runs. In fact many would say the entire climate of the health industry has been utterly corrupted by this practice. As regards the practice being 'innovative', this is clearly an outright lie if made by those aware that this is a core feature of the pharma industry operation.
And what's the betting that the report is authored by people connected in some way with pharma funding? In which case this is yet another example of the poison these people put out. How about The Giant Hypocrisy Award for 2011?
Hardly anyone has any sympathy for Big Tobacco these days but when they are attacked by the world's biggest political poisoners, it's hard not to feel sympathetic.
So let's look at the USA national score for last year in our own area: the pharma vs consumer harm reduction quit-cigs contest -
NRTs
Chantix: 60,000+ heart attacks, dozens of suicides, and the odd murder or two. Successful smoking quitters: under 10% - although that's probably optimistic.
Other NRTs: a magnificent success rate of somewhere between 2% to 7%. But at least they probably didn't kill anyone.
Total success numbers for all NRT types in 2011: a few thousand maybe (way under 10% of attempters, whatever way you look at it).
Consumer harm reduction
Snus and e-cigarettes: 2 million+ off smoking, and no deaths reported.
Some contest. So keep up the astroturfing and lies, pharma, it's the only thing you're any good at.
Katharine Barker, University of Bath, UK, August 25th.
The author describes how:
This appears to be some form of criticism of the tobacco industry, but this form of 'lobbying' is normal practice in many industries, especially the pharmaceutical industry, who are the world leaders in this field. It is hardly 'innovative' - indeed it is the standard modus operandi of the pharma industry. The piece ends with:
This commentary is hilarious considering the way the pharmaceutical industry has perverted the course of legislation and practice in the health industry by manipulation, astroturfing and pressure carried out by the fake public health groups it runs. In fact many would say the entire climate of the health industry has been utterly corrupted by this practice. As regards the practice being 'innovative', this is clearly an outright lie if made by those aware that this is a core feature of the pharma industry operation.
And what's the betting that the report is authored by people connected in some way with pharma funding? In which case this is yet another example of the poison these people put out. How about The Giant Hypocrisy Award for 2011?
Hardly anyone has any sympathy for Big Tobacco these days but when they are attacked by the world's biggest political poisoners, it's hard not to feel sympathetic.
So let's look at the USA national score for last year in our own area: the pharma vs consumer harm reduction quit-cigs contest -
NRTs
Chantix: 60,000+ heart attacks, dozens of suicides, and the odd murder or two. Successful smoking quitters: under 10% - although that's probably optimistic.
Other NRTs: a magnificent success rate of somewhere between 2% to 7%. But at least they probably didn't kill anyone.
Total success numbers for all NRT types in 2011: a few thousand maybe (way under 10% of attempters, whatever way you look at it).
Consumer harm reduction
Snus and e-cigarettes: 2 million+ off smoking, and no deaths reported.
Some contest. So keep up the astroturfing and lies, pharma, it's the only thing you're any good at.
