Tin hat time-big pharma, tobacco and ebola

[Purplefowler]

I've just been reading this on another forum and thought I'd just leave it here too.

It seems that big tobacco companies are trying to reinvent themselves. Some are trying out the ecig route but others are going abit darker and this is where the tin hats need to be donned. It seems that Reynolds bought the company that is behind the zmap Ebola treatment just a month after the first case was discovered. Big tobacco morphing into big pharma? And why have they now said that there is no more zmap left if it is made using tobacco as a byproduct? Whatever the reasons, it seems like a very good way for the parent company to boost profits!
Big Tobacco Tries to Don A New Look: Are You Buying? - NBC News
Kentucky BioProcessing, LLC: Private Company Information - Businessweek

 

[blademansw]

I do stand to be corrected, but I believe they were using tobacco plants merely to "grow" the anti-viral treatment as tobacco plants are excellent for this.

But yeah, big business full stop will do anything they can to make shit loads of money, they don't care who they fuck up or destroy on the way.

 

[scrumpox]

They need to regulate vaping, therefore they need to pigeon hole vaping - vape juice contains nicotine therefore it's a tobacco product and can fall under the FDA. The logic is inescapably simple.
If the regulation is proportionate there's not a lot to worry about.

 

[Chegs]

I just can't pick out the reality of the businessmen and their corporate speak. I reread the first link over and over but all I saw was empty words, they sound desperate to get across that they're trying to right the wrongs of decades of tobacco harm, by pushing tobacco products(ecigs)as reduced harm, and sounding like they WANT the FDA to agree to promote their products.
However, I end up just waffling away in my head and the result is this post.

 

[cheersm8]

Nothing new here then. Tobacco companies still regard themselves as bullet proof and morally able to make millions from that double sided coin, good and evil, with both sides being perfectly legal!
Whereas, those in the business of growing/manufacturing cocaine and opiates are only righteous if their product is sold to the pharmaceutical industry, and are 'evil villains' if they try to sell as a leisure product.