PHARMACEUTICAL MULTINATIONALS: BUYING GOVERNMENTS, SELLING ANTISMOKING

The undeniable connection between antismoking propaganda and the pharmaceutical industry -- or: ministries at the service of multinationals.

It is not a coincidence that the pharmaceutical giants pay antismoking activists all over the world to instigate hysteria and mass hatred against smokers. The goal of this marketing campaign, which involves even well-known names of international medicine, is quite clear: the smoker, frightened by the disinformation, tormented even by his kids (who get brainwashed in school), thrown out from public places and workplaces – and finally hated by society – tries to quit to conform. But, since he is told he is an "addict", he must turn to the help of his doctor, who either sends him to a quit-smoking centre or prescribes the "therapy" directly, depending on the business arrangements made with Big Pharma. With public money, therefore, a private enterprise that is based on persecution is promoted – a persecution that goes after the very segment of the public that pays for that kind of marketing, using "public health" to induce the people to change their behaviour through using false and biased information, to satisfy the financial needs of private colossuses.

This is the chilling reality of the Fraud of the Century and documentation from two major pharmaceutical manufacturers corroborates the mountain of evidence (not the statistical one!...) we are accumulating.

Imagine an industry so powerful, it can afford to deeply infiltrate entire television networks, major newspapers, radio, governments, universities, health institutions, academies, consumers' unions, cultural circles, scientific journals, medical associations, and influence the United Nations, schools, schools of journalism, workplaces - even your tiny neighbourhood club.

Now, imagine that those people and organisations are paid to promote lies and misinformation, falsify and distort data, and to promote wild taxation, restrictions, segregation, marginalisation, hatred, and contempt - against you. Finally, imagine that neither you, nor your children, can ever escape the endless pillage of those groups, and the relentless distortions promoted by the state. You are forced, one way or another, to submit your choices, lifestyle, and wallet to them. You may protest, but the media will not give you voice. You may write to politicians, but all you get is at best a computerised response, at worst a bunch of dramatic statistical figures with no real scientific solidity. You may "choose" not to comply, but you will be sanctioned and punished, or you'll lose your job, or even the custody of your children. One thing is sure: you'll never get satisfaction, and even less, real consideration. You may indeed be allowed to have the last word, as long as it is "Yes, sir." Otherwise, you and what you are connot ever be right. Would you consider that situation tolerable? Probably not. Would you be willing to do something about it? Probably yes. Yet, that situation is real, and present, and you do little - or nothing at all to put an end to it.

The pharmaceutical giants are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to people and organisations whose sole purpose is to lie about tobacco, intimidate opposition, and in so doing, increase taxes, marginalize smokers, advance prohibition, and firmly control information. Why? Because that will get many smokers to quit. And, since one of the lies is that smoking is addictive, many smokers are convinced that to break their "addiction" they need the pharmaceutically produced smoking cessation products - often quite dangerous for health, and always immensely profitable for the multinationals.

For the first time ever in the history of this disgusting saga, FORCES publishes a complete list of names, dates, organisations and sums paid by just one of the pharmaceutical giants, Johnson & Johnson. Through its philanthropic organisation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the tentacles of this super giant control or influence the vital power centres in America and, directly or indirectly, in the West. You will be surprised to see who is on the payroll: trusted, credible faces you often see on television, people on the board of directors of your favourite newspaper, or perhaps that famous researcher... maybe even someone at the Surgeon General office of the United States, or the head of that "disinterested" group trying so hard to get you to quit smoking - and kick you out in the cold if you have a puff - to "protect," of course, the non smokers from non-existing dangers.

The most colossal fraud of history, the dangers of primary and passive smoking, is pushed relentlessly by billion-dollar marketing and propaganda budgets that have turned the public health systems into the largest sales promotion network ever conceived. But this is not just to sell pharmaceutical products; it is also to establish firm control on governments and populations through the international health establishment, which clearly intends to become the de facto dictatorship of the New World Order. And once the control network is established for antitobacco, it will be used for any other form of control. This historical trap, however, still tragically escapes the attention of most.

This is not cheap sensationalism. The meticulous and dedicated research work of Wanda Hamilton clearly shows that there is no end to the corruption of public health systems. It is just a matter of having sufficient money to buy the right people in the right places - and to finance the right groups.

It also proves conclusively that health "concerns" are the ticket to bypass the rule of law and traditions, integrity and truth, scientific methodology and liberty - and to get rich, famous, and hailed for doing so. So much for us fools who still believe in justice.

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BIG PHARMA - THE RICHEST COMPANIES IN THE WORLD

If you thought you knew all there is to know about Big pharma and why they are determined to control the smoking industry, and all our lives, then this book is a must.

BIG PHARMA: How the World's Biggest Drug Companies Control Illness

by Jacky Law

If you thought that you knew the worst about the pharmaceutical industry, think again. Jacky Law, a journalist who has reported on health care for 25 years, sets out in this important book the story of a monster that has grown in our midst so quickly we have yet to grasp the implications. During a single human life span the international pharmas have expanded from an industry struggling to market drugs into a global combine of colossal power and wealth. It now delivers better financial returns than all other industries. The figures are astounding. Ten drugs earned $48.3 billion in 2003. Top drugs such as Lipitor (prescribed to lower cholesterol) can earn tens of billions of dollars per annum — one product accounting for more money in one year than most companies earn in a lifetime. The pharmaceutical companies make such enormous profits, Law says, that the whole business has a momentum of its own that seems impossible to check. As a result the very reason for the existence of the industry needs a fresh evaluation.

What is its aim? In offering an answer, Law, with scrupulous objectivity, does not blame only the pharmas. She writes: "The problem has been that the regulators and the industry that they are paid to regulate have been able to coexist rather too cosily for too long. In the case of the UK, there are historic reasons why commercial issues have become so entangled with public health, but in fact all countries are driven by political agendas that have always put greater weight on the creation of wealth than health."

So it is no good relying on the government either to hold the industry in check or make certain that its drugs provide us with value for money. The truth is that the industry is left to its own devices, what it researches is driven by market forces and the result is that only a minority of new drugs offers any clinical advantage over old ones. But what about science? Where are all our objective, independent scientists? Why haven't they noticed all this and blown the whistle? Reading this book gives you the impression that nowadays it is hard to find a scientist who does not work for a drug company. Law writes, "Just finding experts with absolutely no connection with a drug to sit on the regulatory panels that decide whether a drug should get a licence is not easy."

She writes that this is a possible explanation for what happened in the Vioxx scandal in America. Trumpeted as a brilliant new painkiller, Vioxx turned out to cause heart attacks and strokes. An official of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told a US Senate hearing in 2004 that his agency's approval of Vioxx had led to "the single greatest drug-safety catastrophe in the history of this country or the history of the world". Another FDA officer estimated that 28,000 Americans had had heart attacks and strokes as a result of taking Vioxx while he was arguing with his superiors about its risks. Yet the final twist, Law points out, came when a 32-member committee of the FDA voted 17-15 to allow the drug back on the market.

Despite the book's devastating indictments, the final picture is not without hope. Law points out that the human race can survive perfectly well without an endless supply of new drugs but the pharmaceutical industry cannot. So there is the possibility of a transfer of power. It seems to me that we might have subconsciously realised this. Otherwise how to explain the fact that in Britain we do not bother to take at least half the drugs prescribed for us? They go gently out of date in the bathroom cabinet. But a radical change would require a decision by us to play a bigger role in our own health care. Thanks to the internet we are already better informed about illnesses and possible treatments than ever before. Law says we now need to move away from the medicalisation of society, the belief that every problem requires a medical solution, and break the pharmas' stranglehold by insisting that our leaders treat public health separately from the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry. We need to seize back control of our medical destinies, and this book's great strength is that it inspires us to do just that.

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