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Sep 7, 2010
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What I advocate against Bolen is nothing more or less than what reputable scientific journals, newspapers and magazines voluntarily do to authors known to lie. I would expect a "conservative" to be especially... [full story]

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Jan 4, 2010
Government Corporations & corruption, waste & tyranny > Solutions - looking after our citizens

I found the article on the destruction of health risk reports by tobacco companies, reported in many newspapers, infuriating.

It is not so much that the tobacco industry has been able to ‘hide’ the truth about the dangers of is product for years that concerns me. It is the outright lack of interest to investigate or challenge this industry for decades by two of the most notorious health agencies that are designed to protect consumers, none other than the FDA and Health Canada, that makes my blood boil.

Currently, in Canada, Health Canada has made it their mission to impose unrealistic requirements and penalties on ‘natural health products’ designed to prevent disease and/or maintain healthy bodies while the government graciously accepted tax revenue from a product even a 6 year old knows is dangerous to your health and lungs (tobacco). It has been a ‘no brainer’ that tobacco is dangerous to ones health, yet it operated unchallenged by our ‘public health’ agencies.

I cannot understand the public health bureaucratic system that continues to make decisions that are blatantly not ‘in the public interest’ and get away with it. There continues to be zero accountability from Health Canada and this latest article where they did not investigate the harm of tobacco on their own but relied on the reports from the industry (which is now revealed that damning health results were withheld from health authorities for years) shows that the health bureau(s) continues be to inept, out of control and untrustworthy with it comes to our health.

I don’t think the tobacco companies should be sued. The health agencies in charge, Health Canada in particular, should be sued. Once again, HC has not done its job.

            Ottawa Citizen/ Edmonton Journal/ National Post

(2009-10-15)

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Tobacco company tried to cover up risks: report; Destroyed documents could be used as evidence in lawsuits

Documents destroyed by Imperial Tobacco Canada contained scientific proof that cigarette smoke was potentially deadly, and could be used as evidence as
provinces fight legal battles with big tobacco, according to a study published in Canada's top medical journal.

The Canadian Medical Association Journal, in the first published account of a Canadian tobacco company destroying documents, reviewed 60 scientific reports
that Imperial Tobacco tried to conceal from the public. The authors found evidence that could have had important implications, dating back as far as the
1960s, for government regulation of tobacco and the future health of Canadians.

The documents were ordered destroyed in Canada in 1992 by the British parent company, but copies were then stored at the British American Tobacco headquarters
in the U.K., said Dr. Dave Hammond, one of the authors of the study, with the University of Waterloo.

Hammond said the documents show the company knowingly made addictive and toxic products without informing government or consumers. "You have these internal
documents based on their own research, and at the same time you have executives publicly saying that cigarettes and nicotine are non-addictive," he said.
"And they even tried to destroy this evidence so that it would never be known."

The studies revealed "shocking" evidence that smoking was carcinogenic, addictive and caused tumors in animals, which Hammond said is generally acknowledged
by scientists to cause death. About 30 per cent of all cancer deaths are linked to tobacco use and about 37,000 Canadians die each year from smoking-related
illness, according to data from the Canadian Cancer Society.

"If they were genuinely concerned about health risks, they should have made them public," said Hammond.

Eight provinces have passed laws to allow them to sue for health-care cost recovery. Ontario, Quebec, B.C. and New Brunswick have already filed lawsuits
against Imperial.

Rob Cunningham, a senior policy analyst and lawyer with the Canadian Cancer Society, said the journal's uncovering of these documents will likely have a
significant impact on the impending court cases. "The revelations in this study are very damaging to Imperial Tobacco and will be very helpful in (the
province's) court cases," said Cunningham.

In the U.S., lawsuits were settled for more than $240 billion several years ago.

A spokesman for Imperial Tobacco did not have an immediate response to the study.

Tiffany Crawford



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