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The tobacco companies.

• incrudible 4y ago
  Which tobacco company is not also in the vape business?
  • AndrewUnmuted 4y ago
    Hello there. I just want you to know, I have upvoted every comment I've read from you so far. Keep up the good work, you're doing the reading, thinking for yourself, and questioning the lies so many people here spew uncontrollably.
• tablespoon 4y ago
  > The tobacco companies. That's not really an answer. Do you have an actual example?
  • hedora 4y ago
    Here's one that made news 12 hours ago. Phillip Morris just hired Holman out of the FDA: > It's unclear when Holman had recused himself, but it appears to have been less than four months ago. On March 18, Holman signed off on the third generation of PMI's heated, smokeless tobacco product, IQOS. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/fdas-top-tobacco-scientist-takes-job-at-marlboro-maker-philip-morris/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/fdas-top-tobacco-sci... The article mentions a second recent incident like this. It's pretty common practice to "passively" wait for a regulator to take a questionable action on your behalf, wait the minimal recusal period, and then hire them to "work" for you for some large multiple of typical market compensation.
    • tablespoon 4y ago
      > Here's one that made news 12 hours ago. Phillip Morris just hired Holman out of the FDA: That's just Phillip Morris hiring a guy, it's not Phillip Morris saying vaping is safer than cigarettes so it's healthier to smoke.
      • hedora 4y ago
        OK, now go look at the marketing for the product they bribed this guy to approve.
• collegeburner 4y ago
  lmao no. they're on board with vapes as a safer option bc it pulls them out of the long decline to nothing they was on