Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In no way does this parody piece intend to imply that non-profit cancer groups would endorse tobacco (although doctors and non-profits certainly did decades ago). |
| Most doctors now agree that the inhaling of carcinogens in tobacco smoke is the No. 1 cause of breast cancer in the United States, and they warn women against smoking. Interestingly, the No. 2 cause of breast cancer is chronic vitamin D deficiency, yet neither the medical establishment nor the cancer industry currently expresses any interest in urging women to get more vitamin D through sunlight exposure or nutritional supplementation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Hopefully, we eventually won't have a tobacco industry in this country or anywhere in the world. That would be ideal. Hopefully, people don't need to inhale these deadly products.
When the backlash happens against Big Pharma, we're going to see the same thing. Big Pharma here will finally have to get creative and try to sell their products overseas. They will very likely start exploiting Asia again. There's a whole lot of people over there, they need drugs too. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Few would deny the deceptions, except perhaps the tobacco companies themselves. But what's most intriguing about this effort to prosecute Big tobacco for racketeering is that the racketeering charges almost perfectly describe the behavior of Big Pharma (drug companies) today. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Examples of unpredicted changes
Tobacco: When genes were inserted into tobacco to produce a particular acid, the plant also created a toxic compound not normally found in tobacco.115
Yeast: Yeast DNA was inserted with multiple copies of its own genes in order to increase alcohol production. This unexpectedly raised levels of a naturally occurring toxin and potential carcinogen by 40 to 200 times. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's almost as big a deal as when the American Medical Association, after years of taking millions of dollars from tobacco companies, finally admitted that smoking causes lung cancer and heart disease. (A decade after the scientific evidence was irrefutable, of course, but then again, the AMA was making money off Big tobacco by running tobacco ads in JAMA...)
What is "processed meat" exactly?
A woman asked me this question at a recent live event where I was warning the audience about the dangers of chemicals found in popular grocery products. Frankly, I was surprised to hear the question. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Don't be exploited by tobacco companies or pharmaceutical companies just so that you can make their CEOs rich at your expense. |
| But the tobacco companies figured out that they can exploit other countries. "Let's go sell cigarettes in China."
Guess what, the smoking rate in China is skyrocketing. They're selling a whole lot of cigarettes over there, and killing a lot of Chinese people in the meantime. We're talking about Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, North and South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and all throughout Southeast Asia. |
| But this psychological deception is harder to do today, at least when working for tobacco companies. It's hard to lie to yourself and say, "This is a healthy product." You'd have to be living in some alternate universe, where you've seen none of the science about how dangerous cigarette smoke is to human health. In the pharmaceutical industry, however, there are a lot of people who are lying to themselves, and it's easier to lie to yourself saying, "We are searching for the cure for cancer!" or "We're going to solve osteoporosis and we're going to end suffering! |
Roberta Bivins
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It makes you wonder, what kind of people would go work for tobacco companies? Who would do that? What kind of person would go work for a pharmaceutical company? Who are these drug reps? I've met a lot of these drug reps. They're everyday, nice people; people you might have as friends. Maybe you are a drug rep because you just needed a job. But I think it's important to note that there's a great tendency for human beings, when they need jobs, to set aside their ethics. They tend to dissociate themselves from the long term effects of what they are doing. |
| We tend to forget about that today, but doctors were paid to be spokespersons for tobacco companies, and this went on for decades.
Today, of course, old school doctors are strongly in support of prescription drugs. But new doctors, the smart doctors, whom I hope you're visiting, are questioning the safety of prescription drugs. They are looking outside of conventional medicine for solutions, in terms of disease prevention and even the simple treatment of symptoms. These new doctors are noticing that people get healthier when they get off of prescription drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gee, Big tobacco came up with all sorts of research that said tobacco smoke wasn't harmful and nicotine wasn't addictive. Some of that research appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals, too. Does that mean the research was scientifically accurate and "conclusive?" Of course not. It was just plain old junk science, hijacked by a powerful corporation with a clear profit motive.
If all that sounds familiar, it's because drug companies are playing the same game with science today that Big tobacco played decades ago: Influence the science, bury the bad news and propagandize the good news. |
Melody Petersen
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 Reynolds also learned to confront fans directly. The tobacco company had forty of its "agents" roam the stands, looking for fans who smoked. The agents invited the smokers to the company's Winston tent, where they were given free cigarettes and NASCAR collectibles. The fans gave RJR their names and other personal information. The experience helped the tobacco company form "a relationship" with the smoker. RJR also erected driving simulators for kids to sit in, giving them a driver's-eye view of the race. Its marketing tactics proved potent. |
| Corporate whistle-blowers and lawsuits against the tobacco industry unearthed hundreds of internal documents that detailed the industry's covert efforts to get articles into the scientific literature that advanced its agenda.
For example, after a Japanese study in 1981 showed that secondhand smoke raised the risk of lung cancer, the tobacco companies secretly began working on their own study. They hoped to use the study to raise doubts about the original article's findings. |
Roberta Bivins
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| HINDOO tobacco HABIT CURE
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Physicians promoted tobacco and drugs
If prescription drugs are so dangerous, you might ask, then why are so many physicians still strongly in support of them? The answer is that not too long ago, physicians were strongly in favor of cigarettes, too! In fact, a quick search through historical print ads in mainstream magazines like TIME showed physicians actually endorsing cigarettes. Smoking was good for your health, doctors insisted. And they argued over which brand of cigarette helped you the most! |
| Without a doubt, tobacco companies have no place in a civilized society. Their products kill people, and they are deceptively created and marketed in a way that ignores public safety in order to generate profits. But prescription drugs are no different. They are deceptively created and marketed to virtually the entire population, even while they are harming the very people they claim to be helping.
It's time for the Justice Department to charge the pharmaceutical industry with racketeering. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Tobacco use is of particular concern to the U.S. Department of Defense because, historically, the military has had higher and heavier rates of tobacco use than civilians," wrote the researchers. The Pentagon health survey found, among members of the U.S. military, smoking increased from 30% in 1988 to 34% in 2002 -- the first recorded rise since 1980.
Among the U.S. population in general, smoking has steadily decreased since 1965. In 1965, 42.4% of American adults were smokers, compared to 20.9% in 2004. |
Melody Petersen
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| With tobacco, you can't market to kids," Chip Williams, the former NASCAR public relations director, told Auto Racing Digest in 2003. "That might not sound like a big deal to some people, but it's becoming a larger and larger issue. Most of our clients—most of the companies involved in motorsports team sponsorship—are marketing to families. How can you market to families without marketing to kids, too?"
But NASCAR officials quickly found other major sponsors to fill the space left by Big tobacco. In 2004 race fans saw the No. 6 Viagra Ford go up against the No. 18 Wellbutrin Chevrolet. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Exposure to secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), can cause toxic buildup in people who don't smoke. Secondhand smoke can even lead to colon cancer by damaging genes of anyone exposed to it.
The risk of getting cancer from secondhand smoke is approximately 100 times greater than the risk from outdoor contaminants alone. This is especially unsettling in a society where nearly one in four people smoke!65 The nonsmoker can be exposed to tobacco smoke in the workplace, at home, in restaurants and bars, and in other public places. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The Economist reported November 24, 2004 ("Lessons for Pharma from Tobacco"), that less than 50% of us perceive drug companies as "favorable." That's only slightly above the low ratings we give oil and tobacco companies.
Another reason why our confidence has been shaken is the common defense drug companies use against charges of drug toxicity: "It was approved by the FDA." Congress has even proposed legislation relieving drug companies of liability in cases that involve drug-safety problems if the drug has been approved by the FDA. |
Ron Garner
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 Over 4,000 different chemical compounds, including heavy metals and pesticides, have so far been found in tobacco smoke. More than 50 of these are known carcinogens and others are suspected mutagens which can cause harmful changes in the genetic material of living cells.12 Visible tobacco smoke represents only about 5 to 8 percent of the chemicals released from a burning cigarette. The rest are invisible. Some of these chemicals include: lead, carbon monoxide, vinyl chloride, hydrogen cyanide, benzene, ammonia, acetone, and nicotine. |
Roberta Bivins
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| HINDOO tobacco HABIT CURE
The Oldest arid Most Reliable Remedy on the market for Destroying the Appetite for tobacco IN ALL ITS FORMS.
CHEWING, SMOKING m> CIGARETTE HABIT CURED IN TWO DAYS.
PHYSICIANS TELL KOI
CIGARETTE SMOKER
THERE IS NO CURE FOR THE That the entire system is so impregnated with the opium and poisons inhaled from the cigarette, and has such a firm hold on the victim that his case is hopeless. We have a positive cure in our HIItTIDOO IRIEI^imiDTr.
A FEW DOSES DESTROYS THE APPETITE.
In two days we drive the Poison entirely out of the system. |
| Hindoo tobacco Habit Cure', broadside, Milford, Indiana, c. 1890. While the turbaned Indian and the frequent references to opium suggest the exotic, and the 'roots and herbs' hark back to traditional folk remedies around the world, the rest of this advertisement leans on the standard claims of patent medicines in the nineteenth-century west. The small print adds a perhaps inadvertent layer of irony by asserting 'Milford Drug Co., Sole manufacturers and originators of the Hindoo tobacco Habit Cure': the remedy was as Indian as Indiana.
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Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Protect yourself and your family from the dangers of environmental tobacco smoke!
How to Eliminate Toxins from tobacco Smoke
• Quit smoking! You may need a support group to help you.
• Avoid smoking inside the home. Go outside to smoke (at least 1 00 feet away from the house).
• When you have the urge to smoke, distract yourself with an activity of some kind or take a short walk.
• Ask visitors to step out of the home if they must smoke.
• When going to restaurants and other public places, ask ahead of time if they are smoke-free or have designated non-smoking areas. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Brown & Williamson tobacco company7
For half a century, the tobacco industry muddied the link between smoking and cancer by funding skeptics, researching alternative explanations for lung cancer and mounting public relations campaigns to "manufacture doubt" about science.
"There's a saying in the PR business that for every PhD there's an equal and opposite PhD. And if there's not one then you can create one through funding. And if you put a lot of money into manufacturing ignorance, it can actually work," said Robert Proctor, history professor at Stanford University. |
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