On 29/08/2011 17:06, Elmo wrote:
On 30/08/2011 1:40 AM, mike wrote:
On Aug 29, 4:17 pm, The Medway
wrote:
On 29/08/2011 15:15, mike wrote:

Surely multinational drug companies would be in favour of smoking
because they could then sell anti-cancer drugs to the people who
became ill.

You have no idea how profitable nicotine patches etc are.

I can well imagine how profitable nicotine patches are but surely a
constant supply of cancer-riddled addicts is more profitable than the
diminishing supply of patch-buying quitters that a ban would produce.



Using a nicotine patch isn't giving up smoking - it is just changing
brands.

Oh I don't know. My father gave up smoking for a number of years, but
then the company he was working for wanted to make a number of
redundancies and he was the one that had to tell the employees. He was
stressed and uncomfortable with this and a smoker offered him a
cigarette, which he unfortunately took. A few years later on Father's
Day, I gave him a pack of nicotine patches, he never bought a second
pack, but he never smoked again!

SteveW