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US$2.5 billion on smoking promotion, were a major source of advertising
revenue for many media organizations. Including medical journals.
As a result, media organizations frequently refused to publish anti-smoking
information, tended to tone down coverage of anti smoking news events, and
often refused to accept anti-smoking advertisements.
YES, they even advertised in medical journals and had doctors promoting
different cigarette brands. Most people did not know that cigarettes were as
harmful as they really were and destroyed their lives as the result. I believe that
medical drug and food business today is WORSE and kills more people than
cigarette companies did back then. And worse, they are now damaging and
killing very young babies and children in their pursuit of ever increasing profits.
Today medical advertisers spend $9.7 BILLION on advertising every YEAR. And $267 million on lobbying politicians in the USA. Will that influence the publication of any negative news regarding medical treatments, drugs and vaccines? You bet it will!!! Money talks. Look at the facts.
There are a LOT of similarities in the way cigarette companies and medical businesses influence the media and prey on the ignorance of the public.
An examination of 10 major women's
magazines revealed that between 1967-
1979 . . . that’s 12 years in total. 4 of the
magazines published NO articles about the
hazards of smoking and only 8 such articles
appeared in the other 6 magazines. All of
these magazines carried smoking
advertisements and were thus influenced to
not report any negative news.
During the same time period, 2 magazines, which refused to publish cigarette
ads, published a total of 16 articles on the hazards of smoking. The same thing is
happening now with medical advertising and lobbying with regards to vaccines
and other medical drugs and treatments. At one point in the 1940s the
biggest advertiser in the American Medical Association journal was Phillip
Morris a cigarette company whose cigarettes were endorsed by doctors.
No media runs any article that would affect their advertising revenue from the
drug companies. Back in the 1970s 22 out of 36 magazines refused to run
antismoking advertisements because of pressure by the tobacco advertisers.
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