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A Short History Of Pharma-Bought Influence

Rossum

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Wait.. He mentions the 1970s and specifically the 3rd World Conference on Smoking and Health in 1975. Then in the next paragraph he says:

This was a gift to pharmaceutical companies who were peddling their ineffective - but highly lucrative - nicotine patches and gums without too much success at the time.

Except that nicotine replacement therapy did not arrive until the mid 1980s. IIRC, gum was first approved in 1984 and the patch not until around 1990.
 

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Wait.. He mentions the 1970s and specifically the 3rd World Conference on Smoking and Health in 1975. Then in the next paragraph he says:

This was a gift to pharmaceutical companies who were peddling their ineffective - but highly lucrative - nicotine patches and gums without too much success at the time.

Except that nicotine replacement therapy did not arrive until the mid 1980s. IIRC, gum was first approved in 1984 and the patch not until around 1990.

I also caught that too and figured he was just smarter than me.
I know what happens when I assume:facepalm:
 

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