Quote (ug_warrior(xtc) @ Jan 22 2019 08:26pm)
pharmaceutical companies don't want people to quit
How so? If one company isn't gonna milk the enormous pool of smokers then another would capitalize on that, because smoking is constantly on the decline in the West thanks to governmental regulations and campaigns. Waiting for smoking to completely end so that there's no one to sell the drug to isn't as profitable as developing an "easy" remedy to nicotine addiction.
Medications also lose their value once their patents expire and they become generic. There's more money in developing medications that are really needed. People will get sick all the time and drug companies constantly push new medications where something like one atom on an old, working drug is altered to obtain a supposedly more efficient drug.
Not even public health care systems have the means to help immediately make people stop. It's only through gradual regulations and campaigns that restrict tobacco sales overall that we start to see the decline in smoking. But of course Mr. One-liner here knows how it goes and answers "Big Pharma" to anything medicine-related. Shaking my head, lazy thinking. Or prove me wrong?
This post was edited by Neptunus on Jan 23 2019 05:02am