Thursday, 16 September 2021

Passive Smoking Gun?

It's sometimes difficult to know whether to laugh or to cry. The tobacco firm, Philip Morris International, have bought the UK inhaler maker, Ventura, for £1.1bn (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/16/tobacco-philip-morris-takeover-uk-inhaler-vectura-health). The inhalers are for asthma, a respiratory disease, sufferers. On the one hand, I suppose we should be happy that Philip Morris is diversifying away from tobacco products. On the other hand, they do not appear to be stopping cigarette production/ advertising. Philip Morris also, of course, managed to accumulate their investment money by selling health-damaging products over decades. The company (like other cigarette manufacturers) have markedly increased the incidence of respiratory diseases in many countries. One can only hope, that profits from inhaler sales, will not be used to push smoking and vaping products!

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