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 More options Mar 21 2007, 9:28 pm
Newsgroups: alt.support.stop-smoking
From: nightlight <nightlight.s...@skip.omegapoint.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:28:01 -0500
Local: Wed, Mar 21 2007 9:28 pm
Subject: Re: Sometimes things are not as they seem.
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robbster wrote:
> GREEN HORNET wrote:

>> Guess who supplies anti-smoking with all that money for their
>> commercials?

>> Johnson and Johnson.
>> Why is this?

> Hmmmm Ciggyfree supports and works with tobaccofreekids.org (NH) and I
> seriously doubt that Johnson & Johnson supports their *commercials*
> since this advertisement is on a *global levels* as well as grass roots...

Johnson & Johnson (through its proxy foundation RWJF) created this
"grass roots" antismoking organization Tobacco-Free-Kids, along with
most other "grass roots" antismoking organizations, "patients" groups
(for cancers etc), numerous researchers churning antismoking studies,...
and it is their main funding source:

RWJF spent $70 millions to create TFK in 1996
http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/035929.htm?gsa=1

Example of a $14 million RWJF grant to TFK (tfk report)
http://www.data-yard.net/infocoalition/63.pdf

Or the same grant from RWJF site:
http://www.rwjf.org/portfolios/grantlist.jsp?iaid=143&page=4

Note that "Robert Wood Johnson Foundation" (RWJF) created by RWJ, who
was the grand patriarch of J&J Co:

    http://www.rwjf.org/about/founder.jhtml

is a proxy for J&J Co and its interests. RWJF owns about $5.4 billions
in J&J stock and its governing board shares most of its members with J&J
board, top execs and J&J family members:

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2005/07/why-is-pharmaceutical-com...

And it is not at all about nicotine patches and gums, these are just the
tip of the profits iceberg:

Money Trail:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.smokers/browse_frm/thread/18ce47ec...

Consider, for example that smoking cuts Parkinson's the risk by a factor
3, Alzheimer's by factor 2 (factor 10 for early onset) , schizophrenia
by factor 2,... All these extra tens of millions of patients require
expensive pharmaceuticals for years or decades. Add to that
antidepressants for quiting and for general population scared away from
tobacco (tobacco is a powerful and unique selective MAO B inhibitor, it
rewinds your dopamine levels, via its MAOI activity, by couple decades
toward more youthful levels by the time you are 50, see photos here:

MAO inhibiting properties of tobacco smoke
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol13N3/tobacco.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAO_inhibitor

Other neuro-protective properties of tobacco smoke:
http://herballure.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB19&Number...

...)

Nicotine replacement profits are a small change in comparison.


 
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