FOLLOW THE MONEY

The tobacco industry, dubbed "Big Tobacco" by the anti smoking zealots, is not the political contributor and influence the antis would like you to believe.

The fact is, smoking bans have been bought and paid for by those who stand to profit from the sales of nicotine replacement therapies such as patches, inhalers and drugs.

Below is a table from Open Secrets.org.  See how much Big pHARMa has contributed to the Presidential campaigns and see who's the bigger influence is.  http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.php?ind=H04

Big pHARMa, as the pharmaceutical companies are now called by those who know the real truth, make Big Tobacco look like Mother Goose.  Check out our page titled "Lobbying and Political Influence" for the staggering amounts paid in lobbying expenses.

NEW RESEARCH ARTICLE CONCLUDES SMOKING BAN IN SCOTLAND CAUSED 17% REDUCTION IN ACUTE CORONARY EVENTS - OR DID IT?

This study claims that because of a smoking ban in Scotland in March of 2006, that heart attack admissions to hospitals decreased which conclusively shows that as a direct result of the smoking ban.

But...let's look at those numbers.

From 2006-2007, heart attack admissions declined 8.0% (after the ban).

But look at 1999-2000.  Heart attack admissions declined 10.2%.

Should we conclude that smoking decreases the risk of heart attacks?

Just another example of the spin the antis put on numbers to benefit their agendas.

Read how Epidemiologists who do NOT follow the agenda of the anti-smoking advocates are shunned.  Who is blamed? The pharmaceutical companies, the American Cancer Society..... 

Carl V. Phillips "Warning: Anti-Tobacco Activism May Be Hazardous to Epidemologic Science"

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