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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

"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 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

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

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

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

'THE YOUTH MARKET' IS YOUR KIDS. "The Liggett Group: “If you are really and truly not going to sell [cigarettes] to children, you are going to be out of business in 30 years.” R. J. Reynolds: “Realistically, if our company is to survive and prosper over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market.” https://lnkd.in/dXDUuX8 View in LinkedIn

TEENS OR BUST. "Lorillard: “The base of our business is the high school student." Philip Morris: "Today’s teenager is tomorrow’s potential regular customer… Because of our high share of the market among the youngest smokers, Philip Morris will suffer more than the other companies from the decline in the number of teenage smokers.” https://lnkd.in/dXDUuX8 View in LinkedIn

"ADDICTIVE INDUSTRIES generate the lion’s share of their profits from addicts, not casual users ... 80 percent of the industry’s profits come from 20 percent of smokers ... creating addicts is the central goal. And ... this, in turn, means targeting the young. Less than one-third of smokers start after age 18." https://lnkd.in/dm-uZFZ View in LinkedIn

WHO IS KIDDING WHO? Whatever has been said about not advertising to children, not making candy coated cigarettes for children, and all the other rubbish, the bottom line is that tobacco companies know that they must go after the teenage market to stay in business. Otherwise known as your children. View in LinkedIn