BigTrancer
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NEWS: The Age 13 Nov 01: Tobacco giant buys rights to lung cancer drugs
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Load universe into cannon. Aim at brain. Shoot.
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Well this is just f%*ked up isn't it...
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"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know; there are known unknowns, that is to say the things we know we don't know, but at least we know we don't know them; and then there are unknowns, unknown unknowns, the things we don't know we don't know and those are the dangerous ones." - US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.
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"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know; there are known unknowns, that is to say the things we know we don't know, but at least we know we don't know them; and then there are unknowns, unknown unknowns, the things we don't know we don't know and those are the dangerous ones." - US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.
Are you fucken serious?
That makes me sick to be a human, if thats what they do. Hook people to a product which causes them to form an addiction and in the process gain lung cancer. And where does your money go when you try to halt your lung cancer? Back to the same people who hooked you in the first place.
Disgraceful...
Adikkal
That makes me sick to be a human, if thats what they do. Hook people to a product which causes them to form an addiction and in the process gain lung cancer. And where does your money go when you try to halt your lung cancer? Back to the same people who hooked you in the first place.
Disgraceful...
Adikkal
anfalicious
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sounds like a good time to buy shares in japan tobacco 
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Everyone knows cool hit it's peak in 1974.
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Everyone knows cool hit it's peak in 1974.
Lol@anfa - just what i was thinking.
Honestly, it ain't that bad, no-one holds a gun to your head and forces you to take up smoking it's a conscious decision.
At least maybe with big backing like that a solution would be found quicker/cheaper.
i only have a problem if they sit on it and don't use it (ala oil companies buying hydrogen engine protypes), or exploit it and make it for say 5c a pill but charge $4 a pill to cancer sufferers - perhaps the company is trying to make recompense for all the harm its products have caused?
As for it promoting smoking - if you know it causes lung cancer, and the companies are aiding in helping fight it.. if it encourages you to smoke, then maybe you deserve some form of illness.
It's a fucked notion - getting rich off the problems you created, but i'll be talking to my broker about this jap tobacco company.. seems like they're on a winner here
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Honestly, it ain't that bad, no-one holds a gun to your head and forces you to take up smoking it's a conscious decision.
At least maybe with big backing like that a solution would be found quicker/cheaper.
i only have a problem if they sit on it and don't use it (ala oil companies buying hydrogen engine protypes), or exploit it and make it for say 5c a pill but charge $4 a pill to cancer sufferers - perhaps the company is trying to make recompense for all the harm its products have caused?
As for it promoting smoking - if you know it causes lung cancer, and the companies are aiding in helping fight it.. if it encourages you to smoke, then maybe you deserve some form of illness.
It's a fucked notion - getting rich off the problems you created, but i'll be talking to my broker about this jap tobacco company.. seems like they're on a winner here
Baba_ORiley
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Supaspeed you say that no one holds a gun to your head. Smoking is an addiction just like any other drug addiction (probably more physical than nearly everthing else). No one holds a gun to your head when you take party drugs but you still take them even though you know the adverse health risks.
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blufluffybunny
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I think the point here baba is the fact that the guys who are causing the disease are now holding tyhe future cure/treatments....
Thats just fuc**d up....
I dont even NEED to go into it for you to see that.
Thats just fuc**d up....
I dont even NEED to go into it for you to see that.
Baba_ORiley
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Of course I agree with that. Never said I didn't. The greatest evil is that governments keep it legal even though they now the effects, just to reap the benefit of the huge taxes(if only they realised they had to pump it all back into the health system to treat smoke related illnesses).
Acid_Reign
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This is absolutely sickening, yet so brilliant...
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You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are.
If you want to get anywhere you'll have to run much faster.
--Lewis Carroll
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You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are.
If you want to get anywhere you'll have to run much faster.
--Lewis Carroll
anfalicious
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I hope you never bitch about drugs being illegal...
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Everyone knows cool hit it's peak in 1974.
Baba_ORiley
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Decriminilised yes. Legal no. But thats getting way off topic.
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