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TOBACCO COMPANIES MOVE INTO E-CIGARETTES. "Tobacco manufacturers are moving into the manufacture and sale of electronic cigarettes, according to CNBC. The business, which brought in $400 million to $500 million in sales in 2012, is expected to at least double this year, one expert predicts." https://lnkd.in/dEuEAeA View in LinkedIn

PHARMA COMPETES WITH TOBACCO "in the nicotine market, and has funded anti-smoking NGOs and WHO initiatives." https://lnkd.in/dAMF8ZG View in LinkedIn

PHARMA-TOBACCO TIES. "Tobacco companies pressured pharmaceutical companies to scale back their smoking cessation educational materials that accompanied Nicorette. The second shows how they restricted to whom the pharmaceutical company could market its transdermal nicotine patch." And a third case. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12169078 View in LinkedIn

SMOKING ANTAGONISM BY PHARMA. "Glaxo Wellcome, Pfizer and Pharmacia all became supporters of WHO's tobacco free initiative (with) drugs such as Nicoderm, Zyban and Nicorette." In: Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs." View in LinkedIn

BUT, PHARMA-TOBACCO LINKS EXIST. A 2001 letter from ASH, the anti-smoking lobby, in the UK to the CEO of Glaxo Smith Kline about how disgusted they are that Derek Bonham, Chairman of Imperial Tobacco, sits on the board of GSK. GSK markets Zyban and Niquitin CQ for smoking cessation. https://lnkd.in/dAMF8ZG View in LinkedIn

STRICTLY SHAREHOLDER VALUE? JT: "The company’s pharmaceuticals division grew rapidly, and JT invested ... in diversified interests such as the beverage business, real estate, and health clubs. But tobacco ... (accounted)for almost 90 percent of the firm’s revenue." They then became the Burger King distributor in Japan. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Japan_Tobacco_Inc.aspx View in LinkedIn

WHO-PHARMA PARTNERSHIP. "The strength of the Partnership Project lies in the fact that it has brought together three major pharmaceutical companies, Glaxo Wellcome, Novartis Consumer Health and Pharmacia & Upjohn, all manufacturers of treatment products for tobacco dependence, to support a common goal that will have a significant impact on public health." https://lnkd.in/dAMF8ZG View in LinkedIn

JAPANESE SMOKERS SLOW TO QUIT. "As of 2013, although tobacco consumption was declining, the Japanese remained heavy smokers, consuming an average of 1,800 cigarettes a year, compared to about 1,000 per capita in the United States." Despite a strong effort on public smoking. https://lnkd.in/d3XT8DY View in LinkedIn

A DECADE OF HEALTH FOCUS. "During the last decade, tobacco control has enjoyed a historically remarkable prominence within international health, a status epitomised by the extensive ratification of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first international public health treaty negotiated by the WHO." http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/21/2/274.full View in LinkedIn

INFLUENCING WING COLOR. "They've changed the color of butterfly wings ... by influencing evolution. The desired color for the butterfly wings was achieved by changing the relative thickness of the wing scales -- specifically, those of the lower lamina. It took less than a year of selective breeding to produce the color change from brown to violet." https://lnkd.in/d9XCZcF View in LinkedIn