Commercials and Consequences: Premarin
VIDEO: Pharmaceuticals create cancer-causing products, yet are largely responsible for almost every anti-smoking and anti-vaping measure.
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Junk Science, #5: The Secondhand Smoke fraud – Enstrom Kabat
Though staunch anti-smokers themselves, Enstrom and Kabat were also principled, and refused to back down when it became apparent that secondhand smoke did not pose mortal danger to nonsmokers.
Read morePharma Uses Strip Clubs to Boost Opioid Sales
After defeating and surpassing its only (formerly) major rival, the tobacco industry, Big Pharma has set its sights on the rest of the country.
Read moreGroups Behaving Badly #1: The Pharmaceutical Connection
Anti-smoking groups like the American Cancer Society fight to restrict the freedoms of smokers using millions of dollars from pharmaceuticals–an industry whose products, overall – when taken as prescribed – kill one American every five minutes. And many are said to cause cancer!
Read more“Big” Tobacco? Hardly.
Compared to anti-smoking groups and their financiers, so-called “big tobacco” is pretty tiny.
Read moreReport: Big Pharma covered up baby powder cancer agent for decades
One of the main financiers of bar and restaurant smoking bans, as well as anti-smoking groups, knew for decades that ingredients in its talcum powder contained asbestos, which can cause cancer, according to a report by Reuters.
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