Pfizer executive speaks out against ridiculous FDA attempt to ban prescription drugs from Canada

• On September 10, 2004, Peter Rost, a physician and pharmaceutical industry executive, was a featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Society for Professional Journalists, and openly criticized the high cost of prescription drugs and the efforts by the pharmaceutical industry and politicians to block the importation of cheaper drug from other countries.
• For the past 20 years, Rost has been marketing pharmaceuticals and he is currently a Vice President with Pfizer.
• He has agreed to give Independent Media TV an exclusive interview for a series of articles aimed at dispelling the myths about importation through an insider's window of truth on the issue.
• Why Is Peter Rost Speaking Out On This Issue?
• Rost recently wrote a favorable review on Amazon.com of the book, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How they Deceive Us and What to do About It by Marcia Angell, which contains a highly critical assessment of the pharmaceutical industry.
• A study presented in the February 2004 edition of Pharmaceutical Executive revealed that 87% of Americans do not believe the pharmaceutical industry is honest and trustworthy.
• Bush has fought against importation using every reason under the sun, except the real one, GREED.
• He got FDA Official, Lester Crawford, to say that tampering with prescription drugs imported from Canada could be a way for terrorists to attack Americans.
• The pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline recently began running newspaper ads that question the quality and safety of drugs obtained from Canadian.
• He points out that everyone has conveniently forgot to tell us "stay-at-home Americans" that "in Europe, reimportation of drugs, parallel trade as it is called there, is an institution which has been in place for 20 years.
• Evelyn J. Pringle is an Ohio-based investigative journalist, and a columnist for Independent Media TV.