New Advertising Trend: Fake "Public Service" Ads

Pfizer's Sorbitol, now in the hands of Archer Daniels Midland and Hoffman la Roche, is a synthetic sweetener on the long list of untested, often toxic, additives from which cigarette makers concoct their secret recipes.
Pfizer has never been called to respond to its part in making ordinarily rough tobacco smoke appealing to young people...or to answer the question of how it knew that Sorbitol, when burned, was safe in this use.

Pfizer's smoking cessation drug is a way for the firm to make money again off of Guinea pigged smokers. This might be called "The Zeneca Ploy". Zeneca was a manufacturer of pesticides for use on tobacco...again, without a shred of study of the actual or probable health effects of the residues (alone, or in combo with other toxins and carcinogens) on smokers....and with no listing of the residues on ingredients labels, there being no ingredients labels required by industry-allied law makers. Zeneca, perhaps fearing embarrassing exposures of its role in the hated cigarette cartel, has now gotten out of the "agricultural chemical" business.
Now Zeneca profits with cancer "cure" drugs sold to those who may well be victims of its own tobacco pesticide residues....that is, along with any number of other pesticide residues from among the 450 pesticides that are registered by the U.S. for use on tobacco.
To add injury to injury, Zeneca's Tamaxofen "cancer cure" is itself reported to be a carcinogen.

For-profit health insurers profit by their large holdings in not only cigarette manufacturers but also makers of tobacco pesticides and perhaps most suppliers of of non-tobacco cigarette ingredients. Insurers profit from smokers yet again by charging them more for policies...and by other investments in pharmaceuticals that make "cessation" drugs, patented nicotine-delivery products, or medicines that treat the many illnesses caused by, or exacerbated by, the plethora of non-tobacco cigarette adulterants, most notably, the dioxin-creating chlorine substances (pesticide residues and the chlorine-bleached paper).

It's too bad Pfizer can't come up with a drug to be given to cigarette makers, ingredients' suppliers, and public officials that will lead to Cessation of Adulterating Tobacco and poisoning unwitting smokers with untested and known toxic and cancer-causing substances.

Seriously though, why does these things take place, i have had enouph of fake stuff around the internet, now videos, seriously though, whats next, i just dont get it....

Emily B,

Fitness Trainer Vancouver

I have no idea why this type of thing goes on in the US, as any kind of medication advertising in the UK and Europe is banned outright apart from the simple things like Paracetmol, Aperin, etc

I visit Nevada often and the way drug companies are allowed to advertise, to me this is just plain stupid as 'customers' should rely on their doctors to inform them of what the best available treatment is.

I was under the impression Obama was going to put a stop to this kind of thing, and backhanders to doctors from pharamceutical companies. I await his move.

With new FTC rules reguarding testimonial style advertising and people posing as actual users of prodcuts. These fake radio advertising and tv advertising campaigns wont last for long. new rules will need to be followed.