The Anti-Smoking Lobby - Why Are They So Powerful?

Question

Is it because it's the pharmaceutical manufacturers who produce nicotine replacement treatments have the most to gain?

Answer 1

Your question has a point.

The massive smoking restriction moves are not by accident, nor for some righteous campaign against tobacco use- money is involved.

Medicine the business has grown in profit margin exponentially over the last 20 years. Actual patient care is only a part of health care dollars spent, much goes to profit for middle entities who contribute nothing to patient care.

There is conflict between profit margin and patient care. The object of the most lobby intensive part of the industry (including Health Insurance Companies) seek more money going into Medicine the Industry with the least possible going to actual patient care which allow greater profit.

Within the actual patient care portion of the industry enhanced profit is sought. With a finite, though ever increasing, limit to dollars available the less patient load of chronic disease for the same dollar pool means greater profit for less work.

Controlling nicotine sales is a profit motivation for one of the most powerful lobbies in our nation, the pharma industry. Simply put Drug Companies would prefer to control the distribution and profit of nicotine use.

In addition-
The systematic move to reduce taxes on the wealthiest people, hence the most influential, do not wish to pay for anything that they can get out of. Taking care of people with all disease or complications from any source is included in this.


Put these strong motivations together and you have hired social engineering through our agencies which specialize in manipulating the general public.

Hired social engineering can and does vilify groups of people who were never vilified before.

Conversely hired social engineering may de-vilify groups of people previously ostracized by biblical designation as sin as in the case of homosexuals or promote physician assistants and nurse practitioners as substitutes for doctors while limiting the number of doctors (vilifying Foreign trained Physicians) to pyramid the income enhancing PA and NP under existing licensed doctor are examples.

Hired social engineering through intense combinations of advertising, propaganda, and purchased laws and regulations through elected officials must be considered common today.

The motivations for hiring social engineering is never what is presented to the public. It benefits someone directly or indirectly or they would not pay for the operation.

There is no question the anti-smoking agenda is hired social engineering.

This is just how the game is played today.

Answer 2

Good question? They seem to be a body of people who seem content to dictate what we can and cannot do. I find it hard to understand why so much pressure is put on smokers when alcohol does far, far more damage, but instead of banning that we now have 24 hour drinking! It is alcohol that wrecks family life, causes violence and aggression and ultimately causes just as nasty a death from liver failure etc than diseases caught from smoking. The risks from passive smoking are extremely debatable. There was a learned paper from the World Health Organisation a few years ago which proved there was NO LINK between passive smoking and disease......the government banned its publication! Who is conning who.
I accept that smoking is NOT good for a person, but then neither is eating sugar, saturated fat, driving fast cars, and many more things I could think of.

Answer 3

Probably but then Governments world wide still get a hefty cut of our bad habit! We are now deemed thoroughly anti social. Sad state of affairs since we pay more tax than non smokers do.

Answer 4

I smoked some of that gum, sir, and in my humble Southern opinion it was partly responsible for me coughing up a lung, my pancreas and something I couldn't identify. My dog Blue ate them up like Satnin's grits. Good ole Blue.

Answer 5

I think non smokers aare now in a majority. The law is to protect those who work in that sort of environment although i must say that it gives another lever for local authorities to make everyones life a misery. Less power to the people they say

Answer 6

Well, let's face it : it's more than well proven that smoking is dangerous to health and can and will result in premature death. Plus, it's an antisocial habit : ever tried eating while others nearby are smoking?

Answer 7

Are they so powerful?,,, I still see millions of cigarettes in every corner shop I go into, they cant be that powerful. When cigarettes are only sold in pharmacy's, maybe then you should ask that question. What a glorious day that will be,,,

Answer 8

Because the Pro-Smoking Lobby mainly died of lung cancer and heart diesese

Answer 9

if people gave up the the tax revenue would disappear.50.000 people would be out of work because they are made here in UK.other taxes would go up to pay for the N.H.S.how many billions will the govnt lose because of the do-gooders.?

Answer 10

i would say yes to you, people now are so much against smoking why because they are all brained washed and they haven't got the bottle to stand up for their rights the same with drinking and now its food every one is over weight