Expert describes tobacco smokescreen

2010/06/23 par centresstop Laisser un commentaire

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Source: http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=177670

MPs are being urged not to let tobacco companies self-regulate if they consider further reforms to tobacco laws.

Former US tobacco company scientist, turned whistle blower and anti-tobacco campaigner, Dr Jeffrey Wigand, has told a Select Committee inquiry into the health impact of tobacco, that allowing the tobacco industry to self-regulate is like allowing the fox to build the chicken coop.

« If one reads their documents over the last 50 years, you will find out that self-regulation does not work. They will not voluntarily do anything, anything, whether it’s morally right, whether it saves lives, at the expense of profit. »

Dr Wigand said in the four years he worked in the industry he saw daily and deliberate distortions of the truth which he had to be part of.

« There are two scenarios. Scenario one is what I could say inside the company, that nicotine is addictive and that tar will kill you. Outside the company, I was not allowed to say that. »

Dr Wigand says tobacco companies deliberately sanitise internal reports about tobacco and it effects to protect themselves against law suits.

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