Commentary: We can’t let companies get away with making consumers sick

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Researchers fighting for plain cigarette packaging or minimum alcohol pricing have all found themselves up against the same adversary - commercial self-interest, says Anjana Ahuja for the Financial Times.

Such is the power of advertising, that you don’t need to. The jester has the money and regulatory freedom to plaster his jolly corporate message across billboards, television screens and livestreamed content. Yet his products are associated withThe clown symbolises what researchers call the “commercial determinants of health”, a budding concept that describes the influence of companies over the health of people and the planet.

“This isn’t anti-corporate but pro-health and pro-planet,” insists co-author Anna Gilmore, professor of public health and director of the tobacco control research group at the UK’s University of Bath. The World Health Organization has now added “commercial determinants” under its social determinants umbrella, describing them as “the conditions, actions and omissions by commercial actors that affect health”.

 

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Yet no one talks about Big Pharma and their experimental vaccines that study proves to be very harmful? lol. Follow the money and agenda, guys.

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