12 août 2009
British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco (BAT) which dates to 1902 and sells more
than 300 brands worldwide. BAT’s international brands include Dunhill, Kent, Lucky
Strike, Pall Mall, Vogue, Rothmans, Peter Stuyvesant, Benson & Hedges, Winfield, John
Player, State Express 555, Kool and Viceroy. It does not own all these brands but is licensed
by other companies to distribute them. Here are a few BAT admissions.
November 1961 - Smoking “differs in important features from addiction to other
alkaloid drugs, but yet there are sufficient similarities to justify stating that smokers are
nicotine addicts.”
1967- “There has been significant progress in understanding why people smoke and the
opinion is hardening in medical circles that the pharmacological effects of nicotine play
an important part... It may be useful, therefore, to look at the tobacco industry as if for a
large part its business is the administration of nicotine (in the clinical sense).”
August 1979 - “We are searching explicitly for a socially acceptable addictive product.
The essential constituent is most likely to be nicotine or a direct substitute for it.”
April 1980 - “In a world of increased government intervention, B.A.T should learn to
look at itself as a drug company rather than as a tobacco company.”66
In light of the above tiny sampling of tobacco industry admissions, should there be any
doubt in our minds as to who was slave and who was master, who profited and who lost?
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