tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260937491645277092.post8614420388756476024..comments2023-08-27T13:04:51.898+01:00Comments on Freedom-2-Choose (Scotland): ASH Scotland and the tobacco control lobby talk nonsense about profits and healthBelindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16284836559314332001noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260937491645277092.post-39967130240545833612013-04-27T20:18:45.893+01:002013-04-27T20:18:45.893+01:00Tobacco Control is clearly corrupt. But we tend to...Tobacco Control is clearly corrupt. But we tend to think that this corruption is ideologically justified by TC. That is, TC consider the corruption as being in a good cause, and therefore justified for that reason. But it is inevitable that such corruption will be accompanied by corruption of a financial, personal nature. This is all the more likely since TC has a monopoly. <br />Somewhere along the line, brown paper envelopes are changing hands. Junicannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-260937491645277092.post-90228876576229674812013-04-26T17:29:17.188+01:002013-04-26T17:29:17.188+01:00It is probably OK to make a profit - even a vast o...It is probably OK to make a profit - even a vast one - as long as some of the funds are diverted to the Tobacco Control industry. <br /><br />So for example the pharmaceutical industry is acceptable because they fund TC while the e-cigarette industry is not, even though pharma makes profits orders of magnitude larger than those of the e-cigarette trade, and even though their products in the same market area kill thousands (Chantix) when e-cigarettes are demonstrated as harmless to date and are therefore thousands of times safer.<br /><br />Tobacco Control permits support of ultra-rich mass killers, as long as they pay for the privilege.Chris Pricehttp://www.eccauk.orgnoreply@blogger.com