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Tag Archives: Big Pharma
Complete Contempt
Something Rose drew attention to: WHO LAUNCHES PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY TO HELP SMOKERS QUIT Read that again:To help smokers quit. They do it to help smokers quit. That’s their moral justification. They’re helping people. They’re helping people do … Continue reading
Demonising The Competition
Dmitri draws our attention to third-hand smoke: Harmful cigarette smoke residue may be lurking in rooms where no one has ever lit up, researchers report. In a new study, scientists from Drexel University in Philadelphia found that in an empty, … Continue reading
Crying Wolf Too Long
Via Roobeedoo a few days back: According to a World Health Organization doctor, a global pandemic is imminent, and no one will be prepared for it when it hits. Dr. Tedros Adhanom, director-general for WHO, has said that the next outbreak … Continue reading
Eugenics Never Went Away
Via Audrey Silk, Daily Mail: Smokers face breath tests before surgery: Patients will have to prove they have quit before being referred for an operation Obese patients to be told they cannot have an operation unless they lose weight The … Continue reading
Bad News about Big Pharma
I suppose that if there’s any large industry supporting Tobacco Control, it’s probably Big Pharma. In the first place, as far as I can see, Big Pharma is trying to convert the tobacco plant into a pharmaceutical product. If they … Continue reading
When Is The War On Tea Going To Start?
It always puzzles me that the first – and most potent – drug that I crave on waking at dawn is widely available in shops, freely advertised everywhere, consumed by both adults and children, and not deemed to be poisonous, … Continue reading
The Pill Poppers
Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Prince’s former drug dealer tells how the legend spent $40,000 at a time on six-month supplies of Dilaudid pills and Fentanyl patches – highly addictive opioid pain killers – for 25 years… The dealer said the musician suffered … Continue reading
Manby, Hillary, and Plimsoll
Purely out of slight interest while eating this evening, I was watching the BBC’s Shipwrecks: Britain’s Sunken History on BBC iplayer. It recounted the story of how, during the 19th century, all sorts of ways for saving the lives of shipwrecked … Continue reading
The Global War on Drugs Not Made By Big Pharma.
These days when I’m pretty fully engaged in resisting the Global War on Smoking, I tend to forget that the War on Smoking is part of a wider and more long lasting Global War on Drugs. So H/T Dick Puddlecote’s … Continue reading
Anti-Depressant-Driven, Suicidal, Homicidal, Lobotomized States
Last week, I started out thinking that the Germanwings air crash had most likely been caused by a sudden depressurization of the plane. But since the cockpit voice recorder was found, it’s emerged that the co-pilot locked himself in the … Continue reading
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