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TANGLED WEB. "Corporate diversification leads to a network of holding companies, parent companies, and subsidiaries that are financially connected but operate seemingly independently" and also serve to obscure the corporate ties." http://whyquit.com/studies/2004Pharma_Tobacco_Financial_Ties.pdf View in LinkedIn

"CORPORATE DIVERSIFICATION allows for well-hidden financial ties between pharmaceutical and tobacco companies ... (which) have fostered both competition and collaboration between the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries." https://lnkd.in/d3HZszU View in LinkedIn

PHARMA DIVERSIFICATION. "In Sweden, the company Niconovum was founded in 2000 to provide clean nicotine products, offering nicotine gum, a nicotine mouth spray, and Snus, Swedish smokeless tobacco." In 2009, it was purchased by US tobacco giant RJ Reynolds. " "Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. By Virginia Berridge View in LinkedIn

MEDICAL NICOTINE. "e-Cigarettes are increasingly being used for medicinal purposes. “A fairly substantial proportion of people who would have used a nicotine patch to help cut down on cigarettes are now using e-cigarettes instead." https://lnkd.in/dypBckx View in LinkedIn

COMPLEMENTARY NICOTINE. "The market for e-cigarettes is split between smokers trying to kick their smoking habits and those looking for a complementary product to smoking, for example where cigarette smoking is banned." https://lnkd.in/dypBckx View in LinkedIn

JAPAN TOBACCO BUYS WATERPIPE TOBACCO COMPANY, 2012. The Waterpipe company sells about 24,000 tons of product a year, equivalent to 24 billion cigarettes. Equivalent in weight to 12,000 cars. https://www.jt.com/investors/media/press_releases/2012/pdf/20121116_04.pdf View in LinkedIn

MOVE TOWARDS E-CIGARETTES. "The year 2013 saw a flurry of tobacco company investment in e-cigarettes, both in the UK and in the US. This trend continued into 2014. These included deals and initiatives by BAT, Lorillard, Japan Tobacco, Imperial, Philip Morris, and RJ Reynolds." https://lnkd.in/dqBuGgc View in LinkedIn

A THIRD CASE: Procorida AB was the holding company for Pharmacia AB (Swedish Tobacco Company) and Pinkerton Tobacco Company. "By ... sharing technology among its pharmaceutical and tobacco holdings, Procordia AB had the potential to benefit financially from creating an addiction through tobacco sales that could then be treated" by NRTs. https://lnkd.in/d8VgiAE View in LinkedIn

"A SECOND CASE STUDY documents exchanges between CIBA-Geigy (now Novartis) and Phillip Morris. CIBA-Geigy had been a "major supplier" of pesticides to Phillip Morris ... but when CIBA-Geigy released its nicotine patch Habitrol in 1991, the tobacco company was moved to "help" CIBA-Geigy "devise more appropriate advertising" for the product." https://lnkd.in/d8VgiAE View in LinkedIn

"ONE CASE STUDY showed that Marion Merrell Dow, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company and manufacturer of Nicorette® gum, canceled its Smoking Cessation Newsletter to physicians after tobacco giant Phillip Morris threatened to cancel its regular purchase of humectants from Dow Chemical." http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/786012 View in LinkedIn