What’s in it for the tobacco industry?
There’s one university that was exposed on the front page of the New York Times as not only taking lucrative grants from Philip Morris, but also allowing the company to vet their research articles and approve what got published. Now they’ve supposedly changed that, yet they haven’t decided not to take the money, but simply rewrote the rules about Philip Morris editing their articles. It’s also no secret that the president of this university sits on a board of a tobacco company. The point is that it’s a partnership, and for a medical researcher to take money from a tobacco company, even in a time of recession, is like a detective taking money from the mob. It’s medical researchers lining up and begging for money from the tobacco industry. That’s the distinction. That’s what so obscene about this issue. I think that medical researchers who believe that the tobacco companies are legitimate businesses that should be funding medical research are sickening. Do you think that the medical rese
