Year: 2022

YOUNG UK PUNK CIGARETTES. "Death (and Death Light) is a brand of cigarettes sold ... from 1991 to 1999. Entrepreneur BJ Cunningham invested his life savings to create and market an additive-free smoking product called Death ... marketed to the “young underground punk rock” consumer market." Aptly bankrupt by the Black Death booze company lawsuit. https://lnkd.in/dPT2GbD) View in LinkedIn

IF THIS WAS ISIS, planning to entice, then addict, and then slowly kill over one third of your children, it is probable, if not certain, that there would be a declaration of war. But somehow, we have let tobacco companies have singular rights against legislation or regulation worldwide. How ever did we get into this pickle? History will look back at this era very unkindly. View in LinkedIn

WHAT IS TOBACCO'S RELATIONSHIP WITH PHARMA? Both are into drug delivery, both sell nicotine products. As tobacco sales decreased, and tobacco companies eyed marajuina and related possibilities, there must have been considerations about diversification into pharma? View in LinkedIn

TOBACCO PHARMACEUTICALS. A natural alliance for tobacco companies would be with pharmaceutical companies, to access the deep chemistry knowledge base, especially for herbal extracts, provided of course, it could continue to avoid regulation by not making health claims. Curiously, instead, most have made alliances in the junk food sector. View in LinkedIn

"DRUG DIVERSIFICATION In a world of increased government intervention, B.A.T should learn to look at itself as a drug company rather than as a tobacco company. The ... programme ... (1) what to administer, (II) how to administer it, and Ill) how to encourage social acceptability ... followed up through the purchase of a drug company." https://lnkd.in/dGX7-Ud View in LinkedIn

TOBACCO AND PHARMA ALLIANCES. "Japan Tobacco Pharma is a fully integrated pharmaceutical entity ... JT has a number of strategic alliances ... Including: Gilead, Keryx, Roche, Medimmune, and Glaxo SmithKline." JT diversified by founding Akros Pharma and purchasing Torii Pharma. JT was, it turns out, rather unusual in this strategy. https://lnkd.in/d6BqZ4x View in LinkedIn

JT'S COMPLICATED LINE. "JTI recognizes the risks of smoking. JTI does not market its products to minors, and does not market its products in order to encourage anyone to take up smoking ... JTI is committed to developing reduced-risk products, and to fostering accommodation between smokers and non-smokers." But also in the junk food sector. https://lnkd.in/dxKs8Jp View in LinkedIn

RELEASING WAR CHEST. "The Japanese government is set to loosen its grip on Japan Tobacco ...by selling a third of its stake in a sale that will net the country about $10 billion ... after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, proceeds of the sale of Japan Tobacco shares will go toward rebuilding the country’s battered northeast coast." (2013). https://lnkd.in/dCEpdDD View in LinkedIn

JT'S CONFUSED MESSAGE. "Japan Tobacco ... to purchase the rights to therapeutic and preventive lung-cancer vaccines under development by Cell Genesys and ... Corixa. If the vaccines are approved, Japan Tobacco will find itself in the unusual position of marketing products that cause, prevent, and treat the same disease." http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673605776030.pdf View in LinkedIn

"JAPAN TOBACCO (was) first established by the Government of Japan in 1898 to secure tax revenue. In 1904, the government's leaf monopoly was extended to a complete takeover of all tobacco ... in the nation ... to help fund the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. The government remains required by law to own at least one-third of JT's stock." https://lnkd.in/d3XT8DY View in LinkedIn