Published 2013-10-01
“…Between 1992 and 2000, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Johnson & Johnson (but which owns Johnson & Johnson stock), invested more than $300 million in the United States in financing anti-tobacco activities and "grass roots" antismoking groups and runs the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center.23,24 Similarly, Pharmacia Corporation and Glaxo Smith Kline, both major manufacturers of cessation therapies, have been very supportive of anti-tobacco
health advocacy.25 Even the World Health Organization has designated pharmaceutical companies as “its official partners,” further illustrating how intertwined public health organizations are with the pharmaceutical industry.26 More worrisome still, many public health officials involved in shaping standards and policies are financially conflicted. …”
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