The current anti-smoking campaign
is not about public health or drug abuse...

It is about YOUR MONEY... They want it!

Legal Drug Pushers

Americans have become addicted to LEGAL drugs that kill people when used as directed.. Doctors gleefully prescribe and Americans swallow a pill for whatever ails them... from headaches to tummy aches, to combat depression or to improve our sex life. As a result, around 100,000 Americans are killed each year according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

We're addicted to a legal drug culture!

What hypocrisy to blame our health problems on the tobacco industry.

And... from 1989 to 1995 the legal drug industry generally doubled their revenues.

Pharmaceuticals Revenues (millions of dollars)

The main product of these companies are drugs! Drugs for headaches, drugs for backaches, drugs for depression, drugs for allegies, drugs for asthma, drugs for heartburn, drugs for nasal congestion, drugs for impotence, drugs to control your child's behavior, drugs for hair loss, and yes, even drugs to help you stop smoking. Their smoking cessation plans include replacing tobacco with legal drugs. Crack cocaine or heroin might destroy your life, but what about drugs like Viagra, Ritalin, or Prozac?

Taking their lead from the CDC and EPA, the pharmaceutical industry has taken the distortions of clinical studies to a new level.

We see studies that are designed to minimize the appearance of negative risks associated with these drugs, such as heart attacks, stroke, mental disorders, suicide attempts, and violent behavior. Even after studies are completed, the results are highly distorted as well. Drug companies pick and choose which studies they want to publish. They may do twelve different studies on a particular drug, and if six of them say the drug is safe and effective, while the other six studies say the drug is dangerous and useless from a medicinal point of view, they pick the six they want and bury the others. They forward the six they want to the FDA. The FDA looks at those six and says, "This sure is scientific!", and they approve that drug application. ["Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals," Jun 7, 2005, newstarget.com]

Protecting Pharmaceutical Profits
Americans currently pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Canadians, Europeans, and even citizens of Mexico pay only about one-half to as little as one-tenth the price paid by Americans for the very same chemicals. Interestingly, drug companies actually import many of the raw materials used in drugs from other countries, meaning that some U.S. medicines are already sourced from countries like the U.K. and Germany.

Drug companies mark up their prescription drugs as much as 569,000% over the price of the raw materials. A typical markup is more in the 30,000% - 50,000% range. Retailing pharmaceuticals is hugely profitable. There is no business in the world with more profit built into the retail price of the product. How many business owners would like to have those profit margins? The purpose of restricting Americans from buying drugs from other countries is to enforce a medical monopoly in the United States, forcing consumers to purchase drugs at the highest prices in the world, further padding the profits of powerful and influential pharmaceutical corporations who exert strong influence over the U.S. Congress. [©Copyright 2006 Dr. Joseph Mercola. All Rights Reserved.]

Trillion Dollar Pharmaceutical Scam
In an early morning stealth vote, the U.S. Congress passed a Prescription Drug bill called, "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act" that essentially guaranteed huge profits for the pharmaceutical industry at the expense of the American people. A key point of this bill prohibits the Federal government from negotiating discounts with drug companies. This Medicare drug plan fiasco enriches pharmaceutical companies, fleeces taxpayers, and forces millions of older Americans to accept inferior drug coverage. Many representatives who voted in favor of this drug scam were later offered million dollar jobs from the pharmaceutical industry.

Drug companies had a deep hand in steering the Medicare prescription drug bill which has provided them with enormous profits. Watch the 60 Minutes presentation by Steve Kroft about the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and Washington Lobbyists below...