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Chapter 15: The Pharmaceutical Connection
As I said in the opening of the previous chapter, most people believe that
this war on smoking is for the health of the public and the result of scientific
evidence. What is becoming more and more
well known, however, is that the pharmaceutical companies are very much pulling
the strings on the matter for their own personal gain, and are no strangers to
using trickery to sell their products.
At first the idea seems like no
more than a silly conspiracy theory, but consider this: every time you walk into
a pharmacy or even most shops, there is a huge display of quit-smoking products
such as gum, patches or the inhaler. Who
makes these products? The pharmaceutical industry. Who buys them? Smokers trying to quit. Put two and two together and we get this
result: the pharmaceutical industry has direct interests in people trying to
stop smoking as a large percentage of those people will go and buy smoking
cessation products. Each time there is a
no-smoking day, the compliant smokers will often turn to nicotine products as
they now believe this is the reason why they smoke, and this turns a profit for
Big Pharma.
The anti-smoking mantra is
preached everywhere, even in school to young children who will then go home and
nag their parents to stop smoking.
Everywhere we turn there is something negative said about smoking,
smokers are now forced to huddle outside buildings to smoke, it is not
politically incorrect to shout abuse at smokers yet it is to shout abuse at
obese people. More and more smokers are
becoming the outcasts of society, becoming little more than men in the gallows
for the almighty public to walk by and spit on for their crimes. All this prompts smokers to quit their habit,
but the campaigns have been so successful that smokers no longer believe they
have a habit, but rather an addiction – and we all know an addiction requires
the help of a doctor. Compliantly the
smoker wanders down to his doctor to get prescribed a nicotine replacement, or
he goes to his pharmacy for the same product, but either way he is putting money
in the pocket of Big Pharma.
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