The similarities between Pharmaceutical Companies and Tobacco Companies are terrifyingly identical.

Both of these industries sell products that kill people when “used as directed.” Pharmaceutical Companies kill around 100,000 Americans each year according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Tobacco Companies make products that are responsible for hundreds of thousands of cases of cancer in the U.S. each year.

Below are techniques shared by both of these industries proving that profit comes before people.

Distortion of the Facts:

In the past, we watched Tobacco Companies swear that nicotine was not addictive, and that smoking cigarettes is not a direct cause of lung cancer.

Similarly, Pharmaceutical Companies distort clinical studies.

Their studies are designed to hide the appearance of the bad risks associated with prescription drugs, such as strokes, heart attacks, suicide and mental disorders. To make this even worse, after the studies are done, the results are altered. They choose which studies that they want the public to see. For example, say there are six studies and 3 are saying that the drug is good for you, and the other 3 says that the drug is not good for you.

What do you think they do with the negative studies?

Yea, they dump them in the shredder.

All that they care about is that the drug is on the market making them money.

Advertising and Lobbying to Increase Demand:

Yes, Businesses use these techniques and it is very standard, but it shouldn’t be used in an evil way that takes advantage of an individual’s health. Both Pharmaceutical Companies and Tobacco Companies use, or have used, advertising on television to create more demand for their product.

Tobacco companies use to have commercials on television, but this was banned. Now they secretly advertise by sponsoring events and making appearances in movies and T.V. shows. They are even involved in lobbying when election time comes. Why not finance the guy that is going to make all of the calls for the next 4 years, right? Maybe he or she will reduce the smoking age to 17. I’m sure Tobacco Companies would love that.

Pharmaceutical Companies follow this same technique.

Have you ever seen those prescription medication commercials with the corny music and the overly happy people?

If you have, there is a good possibility that you witnessed a very dangerous drug being advertised to the entire country. They leave out some of the most important information during the commercial, until they get busted.

A good example is birth control.

Companies such as Yaz and Yasmin, which are manufactured by Bayer (yea, your daily aspirin) have some of the most influential commercials. They really get females to go and purchase this drug which they will take for many years, until they are ready to have a child. What the public didn’t know was that they were withholding information about its most terrible side effect, BLOOD CLOTS. They simply neglected to pass along these reports about blood clots, and now they are paying for it.

Regarding Lobbying, Pharmaceutical Companies lobby DOCTORS with millions of dollars.

If a doctor is supporting the drug, it must be safe, right?

Wrong.

These doctors are evil as well (I’m not bashing all doctors). The Pharmaceutical Companies buy them gifts, trips, air tickets etc. All that the doctor has to do is show up to the campaign and act like they are involved for a little while. Once their face is shown and the customers see that they approve, they can go on with their vacation. I have read reports from very reputable sources that witnessed this first hand, but I will not mention names.

Next time you go to your doctor and approach the secretary, look down and see if they are offering any type of free prescription drug weekly trials. If they are, I recommend changing your doctor. This is a basic sign that your doctor is influenced by lobbying.

Attracting Children: Life Long Customers:

This is one of the coldest similarities of the two industries.

Tobacco companies use to target children by using cartoon characters on commercials. If the cartoon character is smoking a cigarette, than the child watching the commercial might see nothing wrong with it.

Joe Camel, the cartoon character used by the cigarette brand Camel, lured in thousands of children and teenagers. Their main focus was to get these young kids addicted to cigarettes early so that they would have a life long customer, until they died of cancer.

Pharmaceutical Companies do the same thing. They get children on drugs early in their life, creating a life long customer.

When a child is put on a drug early in their life, they start to believe that they are in fact a diseased person. When the doctor diagnoses a child with ADD or ADHD, the child will associate that label with themself, and they will continue believing this for the rest of their life.

The trick is that by placing these “labels” on these kids, the Pharmaceutical companies know that when they grow up, they will identify themselves with those diseases, and they will take more prescription drugs as long as the doctors put more labels on them.

In my opinion (some may take offense), ADD is starting to become a very loosely diagnosed “disease” for kids.

I thought young kids were suppose to be really hyper, and not pay attention to adults trying to tell them what to do?

Yes, there are some seriously severe cases of ADD, but I think ADD has become a “tool” to sell more prescription medication. Getting life long customers is their main priority.

Once again, I’m not bashing all doctors. Instead, I am spreading awareness that we do in fact have some crooked doctors that work with these evil Pharmaceutical Companies. There were crooked doctors 50 years ago, and there are crooked doctors today.

For example, Before cigarettes were proven to cause cancer in the late 70’s and 80’s, doctors actually RECOMMENDED smoking them. Doctors were actually spokespeople for cigarettes, saying that smoking was good for your nervous system and your “smile.”

You may argue that the doctors simply did not know that cigarettes were bad for you, but I dont buy it. I believe they were keeping a secret which was making them money.

Today, doctors are doing the same thing with these dangerous prescription drugs because Pharmaceutical Companies are paying them to vouch for their products.

PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE!