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http://www.NewsTarget.com/008291.htmlBig Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicalsSaturday, June 25, 2005Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicalsHave you ever thought about the similarities between pharmaceutical

and tobacco companies? They're striking. Both sell products that killpeople when used as directed. The statistics are readily available forpharmaceuticals, which kill around 100,000 Americans each yearaccording to the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Big

Tobacco, which makes tobacco products that are partly responsible forhundreds of thousands of cases of cancer in the United States eachyear. These are the facts from industry. Industry critics (such asmyself) would argue that those numbers are actually much higher.

But let's look at other similarities. Aside from marketing productsthat actually kill people when used as directed, both industries areengaged in the blatant distortion of scientific evidence in order to

mislead regulators and the public.With Big Tobacco we saw the suppression of studies that said nicotinewas addictive, or of studies linking the inhalation of tobacco smoketo lung cancer. In the pharmaceutical industry, we see even worse

distortions of clinical studies. We see studies that are designed tominimize the appearance of negative risks associated with these drugs,such as heart attacks, stroke, mental disorders, suicide attempts, and

violent behavior. Even after studies are completed, the results arehighly distorted as well. Drug companies pick and choose which studiesthey want to publish. They may do twelve different studies on a

particular drug, and if six of them say the drug is safe andeffective, while the other six studies say the drug is dangerous anduseless from a medicinal point of view, they pick the six they wantand bury the others. They forward the six they want to the FDA. The

FDA looks at those six and says, " This sure is scientific! " , and theyapprove that drug application. I'm not making this up.In the late 1990's, drug advertising appeared on television. That is,

of course, another similarity between Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: theyboth use direct-to-consumer advertising to create demand for theirproducts. For many years, tobacco companies sponsored sporting events;in fact, they still attempt to sponsor many sporting events. In the

pharmaceutical industry, we see heavy magazine and televisionadvertising, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent lobbyingdoctors, buying them gifts, trips (to Hawaii, believe it or not), airtickets, and stays in luxurious resorts. All doctors have to do is

show up, sign in, and act like they're attending a continuing medicaleducation course. They then can leave for the entire day, and go onthe beach, go fishing, go surfing, and do whatever they want. It's an

all-expenses-paid vacation.Some people say, " No, that's ridiculous. That doesn't happen. " I'veactually been in Hawaii, talking to doctors who were attending such anevent. I saw the entire room of about four hundred MD's, and these

people just signed in, then they left to go surfing with me! So I knowhow the system works, I've seen it firsthand. All the doctors outthere who might be listening to this, you know how it works too. A lot

of these continuing medical education courses are really just a joke.Doctors pushed cigarettes for decadesAnother interesting similarity between cigarettes and prescriptiondrugs is that doctors have a history of supporting them both very

strongly. You might say, " Wait a minute, doctors don't support smokingand cigarettes. " Sure they do, if you just go back far enough. In theseventies and eighties, they began to figure out that smoking is bad

for you. Before that, however, doctors could actually be found asspokespersons for cigarettes. They said that cigarettes made you healthy.You can find, in archives of old magazines like Time, that some

doctors are even in advertisements stating, " Smoking, it's good foryour smile " . They also said smoking helps you concentrate, and thatit's good for your nervous system. They made many ridiculous claims

about cigarettes. We tend to forget about that today, but doctors werepaid to be spokespersons for tobacco companies, and this went on fordecades.Today, of course, old school doctors are strongly in support of

prescription drugs. But new doctors, the smart doctors, whom I hopeyou're visiting, are questioning the safety of prescription drugs.They are looking outside of conventional medicine for solutions, interms of disease prevention and even the simple treatment of symptoms.

These new doctors are noticing that people get healthier when they getoff of prescription drugs. Alternatively, they use prescription drugsonly as a temporary measure in order to give the patient enough time

and education so that they can put into effect long term lifestylechanges that, in turn, eliminate the need for the drugs.Of course, this frustrates the drug companies, since they want peopleto take these drugs for a lifetime. They claim that it's good for you,

but actually, it's only good for their bottom line when you become adaily user of their overpriced product. Good doctors are recognizingthat. They recognize statin drugs do have a temporary role in dealing

with an acute symptom, which might be extremely elevated cholesterolthat represents an immediate risk to the person's health or even life.So they may use a statin drug on a temporary basis, only for a few

weeks or a couple of months at most. They meanwhile help patientsundergo major, fundamental reforms in their lifestyle consisting offood choice, dietary habits, and physical exercise, avoidance ofenvironmental toxins, lower levels of chronic stress, better sleep,

better hormonal balance, and so on.Marketing to childrenHere's another similarity between Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: Theyboth love to market to children. For years, tobacco companies havebeen trying to edge and wiggle their way into the adolescent market,

targeting teenagers and children. They used Joe Camel, a cartooncharacter, to sell cigarettes, because they knew that if they couldget adolescents hooked on nicotine, they had a customer for life. It'snot rocket science to figure out the marketing tactic there for Big

Tobacco.Pharmaceutical companies don't have the same addictive quality fortheir drugs. You're not necessarily psychologically or physiologicallyaddicted to drugs in the same way as nicotine. However, by starting a

kid early on drugs, they can create a paradigm where that kid grows upthinking that he is a diseased person, and that he is that label. Soif they get a kid diagnosed as ADD or ADHD, then that child willassociate that label with himself or herself, and will continue on in

life with the belief that they have some sort of disease or brainchemical imbalance. And they'll even tell other people, " I'm ADD " or " I'm bipolar, " as if that's who they are.That, of course, is not who they are. That's a completely fictitious

label; it's been made up, and it's been placed upon them. But thetrick is that by placing these labels upon these children, the drugcompanies know that when those children grow up, they identifythemselves with those diseases, and they readily accept the idea of

taking more prescription drugs as long as the doctors put more labelson them. So as they grow up, they'll find more labels, being told, " You have a syndrome X, you need this drug " or " You have high blood

pressure and that's a disease, so you need this drug to lower yourblood pressure. " If you take a child and you get them used to the ideaof associating their identity with labels of diseases, then you create

a lifelong customer for the pharmaceutical industry. Big Pharma knowsthis, and their marketing people understand this.Some people will do anything for a paycheckAnother interesting similarity between Big Tobacco and Big Pharma is

that both are staffed by people you might consider to be ordinary,everyday people. They might be your neighbors, people that youwouldn't think would be harmful, and who aren't necessarily evil.They're just regular, everyday people trying to succeed in their jobs.

Yet, they are part of a machine that is creating tremendous pain andsuffering, along with destruction, disease, and distortion in our society.It makes you wonder, what kind of people would go work for tobacco

companies? Who would do that? What kind of person would go work for apharmaceutical company? Who are these drug reps? I've met a lot ofthese drug reps. They're everyday, nice people; people you might haveas friends. Maybe you are a drug rep because you just needed a job.

But I think it's important to note that there's a great tendency forhuman beings, when they need jobs, to set aside their ethics. Theytend to dissociate themselves from the long term effects of what theyare doing.

Historically, we saw this of course in Nazi Germany, where people weremembers of the Nazi party. They were part of a machine that wascreating tremendous evil, pain and suffering, and destruction in many

different ways. (I'm not talking just about the Holocaust here.)They were part of this machine, yet they felt the need to succeed intheir particular role in that machine. They dissociated themselvesfrom the pain and suffering the machine was ultimately causing.

Perhaps they saw themselves as just a cog in a big wheel. Maybe theyfelt like they just had no other options. I suspect that some of thesame psychology is at work today in people who work for pharmaceutical

companies, or people who work for tobacco companies.But this psychological deception is harder to do today, at least whenworking for tobacco companies. It's hard to lie to yourself and say, " This is a healthy product. " You'd have to be living in some alternate

universe, where you've seen none of the science about how dangerouscigarette smoke is to human health. In the pharmaceutical industry,however, there are a lot of people who are lying to themselves, andit's easier to lie to yourself saying, " We are searching for the cure

for cancer! " or " We're going to solve osteoporosis and we're going toend suffering! " They think they're part of a machine that's going toend suffering. Thus, they think if they succeed in marketing and

creating more money and more profits for their company, then fund moreresearch, they can find all these solutions to disease.Thus, they fall for something I call " The Big Lie, " which is the idea

that we can solve health problems by creating ever moretechnologically advanced or complex synthetic chemicals and compoundsthat, if introduced into the human body, can suddenly reverse all ofthese diseases which have been created by years and years of abuse

through lifestyle, lack of nutrition, exposure to environmentaltoxins, and so on.The Big Lie of the pharmaceutical industryIt's a big lie that you can cure cancer or diabetes by coming up withthe right chemical, or that you can even cure depression by altering

brain chemistry with the right chemical. This is a big lie. It's as ifmedical science has gone down the wrong pathway for so long that theycan't even see the fact that they're lost. They're lost in the forest,

and they can't even see the trees. All they can do is continue to tryto come up with more and more chemicals they think are treating thesediseases.They think the only reason they haven't cured cancer yet is because

they don't have enough money, that it's just a money problem. " Give usmore money and in a couple more years, and we'll have cancer cured. " That's been the promise they've held out for decades. The reason they

think they can cure these diseases if they just have enough money andenough time is because conventional medicine remains stuck in theparadigm of germ theory. And the germ theory says that every diseaseis based on an organism or an invading element, whether it is a virus

or bacteria, and if you just have the right chemical compound, thenyou can cure that infectious disease.Of course, this was quite valid in the day of penicillin, and it'sstill valid today for basic, simple infections. But the germ theory

does not apply to chronic, degenerative diseases such as cancer,osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascularheart disease, Crohn's disease, clinical depression, inflammatorydiseases, and so on.

Chemical-based medicine is a Newtonian view of healthThat model of germ theory simply does not apply today. It doesn't meanthat germ theory is false, but these chronic degenerative diseasesexist in a different realm. For example, regarding physics and the

laws of motion, Newtonian physics operate on a large scale; it talksabout the interaction between the motion of objects and gravity andmomentum. That is a very valid realm of physics and science. And itcreates predictable observations and outcomes that match the

mathematics. But when you go into quantum mechanics, or when you getto the subatomic level, the rules begin to change. You're now dealingwith quantum physics. Quantum physics disagrees with Newtonianphysics. But it doesn't mean that quantum physics is wrong, or that

Newtonian physics is wrong, it's only that it's applied in a differentcontext. The same is true with medicine.We still have the old germ theory, which I equate to Newtonianphysics, trying to be applied to today's epidemic diseases, which

shouldn't even be called diseases, because invading microorganisms donot cause them. They are created as a result of many different inputs,or causes that the patient undergoes, or those which the patientchooses to engage in. To call them diseases is really not accurate.

Therefore, the idea that you can cure or reverse these fictitiousdiseases is invalid at its very premise.Cancer is no infectious diseaseThe idea that you can reverse cancer by taking a synthetic chemical

compound or prescription drug is, at its very core, nonsense. Becausethere is no such infectious disease as " cancer, " there is no microbialinvader. In fact, there isn't even a tissue or a physical element that

you can point to and look at under a microscope and say, " That is cancer. " Some people mistakenly say, " Well, sure you can. You can take a tumorout of the body, and you can put that under a microscope and call it

cancer. However, that's not cancer. That's the side effect of cancer,because cancer is a systemic failure of the immune system. It's asystemic disease. It is actually a condition. It is a lack of thebody's ability to self-regulate its own cell growth, to clean up its

own blood, tissues, bones, bone marrow, and so on.This is the nature of cancer; you can't put that under a microscopeand look at it. In the germ theory of disease, however, scientists arealways trying to look at cancer under a microscope, where they can put

it down and say, " This is the microbe, see? There's the virus " or " There's the bacteria " or " There's the parasite. " They still try to dothat today by saying, " Alzheimer's is based on the nervous system. Put

it under a microscope and there you can see plaque. Plaque on thenervous system. " They think that's the cause of the disease. It's not,it's just a side effect.Big Pharma = big-time poverty

Getting back to the main point of this, which is Big Tobacco and BigPharma, we were talking about why people work for these organizationswhen these organizations are actually doing such evil, or engaging in

the creation of such pain and suffering, and even death. Here in theUnited States, we're also talking about economic poverty created byboth of these companies.Tobacco companies make people poor, because they hook them on a

product that's expensive to buy; and they have to keep buying it,because they're addicted to it. You'll notice that people who smoketend to be on a lower economic scale. Part of that is the viciousfeedback cycle; if you start smoking, you will get poorer. As you get

poorer, you will continue to smoke more because life is terrible andyou need your nicotine high just to feel okay. Thus, it's a downwardspiral into oblivion.Much the same is true with prescription drugs in terms of the economic

scale and the loss of good, clear decision making abilities. One thingI've noticed is that when people begin taking prescription drugs, notonly do they immediately suffer a big economic hit (remember that 50

percent of all bankruptcies in the United States today are due tomedical bills, including prescription drugs), they also tend to losethe ability to make good decisions.Many of these drugs, especially statin or antidepressant drugs, for

example, affect people's mental acuity. They result in a loss oflucidity, which results in people no longer comprehending the bigpicture, and no longer making good decisions. When people can't makegood decisions, they ultimately decide to allow the doctor to keep

prescribing them more prescription drugs. They don't have the mentalawareness to say no to the drugs. They keep taking more drugs, andthey lose even more awareness. They get even less responsive, andretain less decision-making ability, and this just becomes another

downward spiral.As this is happening; they are being drained of their finances. So dayafter day dollars are leaving their pockets and being stuffed into thepockets of the corporate CEOs and the shareholders of the

pharmaceutical companies. There's this huge transfer. Imagine dollarbills with little wings flying out of the pockets of people all aroundthe country and flying into the corporate CEOs' pockets in the bigbuildings of the giant pharmaceutical companies of this country. That

is happening every single day. I believe it's an exploitation ofpeople for economic gain, for greed, by the pharmaceutical companies.Profits first, people secondThis, of course, is classic behavior that we saw from Big Tobacco. It

was all about greed, it was all about marketing products. They didn'tcare about the resulting effect they were creating in their customers.In fact, the tobacco companies really only wanted to make sure their

product didn't kill customers so fast that they lost a payingcustomer. They most likely didn't mind that it was giving themdisease; they just wanted the customer to stay alive long enough tokeep buying more product.

To some degree, this mindset is still present in the pharmaceuticalindustry. You see this incredible insensitivity to the human conditionin Big Pharma. You see press releases and memos from inside thepharmaceutical companies saying , " We can't wait for the Alzheimer's

wave to come. We can sell a lot of drugs! Look at all thoseAlzheimer's patients out there! " Obviously I'm paraphrasing, but thisis the kind of attitude we see. They look at diseases asopportunities, and that's sick! To look at a disease and how it's

sweeping across the nation and affecting millions of people, and havedollar signs ringing up in your eyes and thinking, " Wow! This isgreat! We can make so much money selling drugs to all these people who

are going to have Alzheimer's, or dementia, or osteoporosis. " That'swhat goes on every single day in the back alleys of Big Pharma; orrather, I should say, in the executive office suites of Big Pharma.

There are no back alleys; they're doing quite well financially.Exploiting the public for financial gainWhether it's Big Tobacco or Big Pharma, the similarities are veryobvious at this point. It's all about making money, and selling a

product to people. It's about exploiting the public for financialgain, while disregarding the true effects of your company's productson the public health. That, to me, is a crime. It's not just a crimein the legal sense, but in the spiritual sense, a crime against a

fellow human being. To exploit their pain and suffering for yourfinancial gain is unethical and immoral. It's bad karma and it shouldbe against the law.Instead, many of these companies are actually propped up today.

Business magazines talk about them as great successes, and their CEOsare named as some of the most successful business people in thecountry. They sit on various boards, and they're influential people. Iask myself, " What great good have these people accomplished? " Nothing!

Where are the cures for any of these diseases?Where are all the cures?I haven't seen a single cure for any disease come out of thepharmaceutical industry since insulin came out. And that doesn't even

cure diabetes, although it does regulate blood sugar. So where are thecures? Where is this big turnaround in health if everybody's taking somany drugs? If drugs are so good for everybody, shouldn't we be thehealthiest population in the world? Where are those statistics? Well,

they don't exist!We're the most diseased population in the world, the most diseased inthe history of the world. We have never seen a population thisdiseased, and we're taking more drugs than anybody. We're spending the

most money on healthcare. We're supposed to have the greatesthealthcare system in the world, yet we're the sickest!We're the craziest in this country, too. We have more mentaldisorders, behavioral disorders, school violence -- we have people

shooting their friends and classmates -- we have more people withdementia and Alzheimer's than we've ever seen before. So where are allthese medicinal miracles? They're nowhere. The whole thing is a giantdistortion and an illusion. Pharmaceuticals offer us nothing. It's

just like nicotine and cigarettes. They offer us nothing other than aquick fix; nothing other than something to try to make us feelcomfortable in the short term. Meanwhile, they are destroying ourhealth from the inside out. In both cases, they're also destroying us

economically.Class action lawsuits: the downfall of Big Pharma?The last similarity between these two companies is the class actionlawsuits. Of course, Big Tobacco has fended off a lot of lawsuits.There was a Big Tobacco settlement a few years ago where the states

got involved, and I think there is just such a lawsuit coming againstthe pharmaceutical companies.I think the pharmaceutical companies have dug their own grave. Theyhave over-hyped, over-promoted, over-prescribed, over-pushed, and

over-advertised all these prescription drugs. As a result, they nowhave over 40 percent of the population taking drugs. This means thatas the facts start to come out about how these drugs are killingpeople and causing disease, and sometimes causing the very disorders

they claim to treat, there's going to be a huge backlash -- a majorclass action lawsuit.Most of the adults in this country will probably be involved. We'vegot drugs out there that are extremely dangerous, even

over-the-counter drugs like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs,which, by the last study I saw, are killing 16,500 Americans per yearjust from gastro-intestinal bleeding alone. These are the numbers from

one of the drug safety researchers at the FDA. That's just one drug,one over-the-counter drug, killing 16,500 a year. I think there's abig backlash coming, just like there was against Big Tobacco.

Times are changing; people are realizing that pharmaceuticals are notsafe, that they need to look beyond drugs. They need to look beyondthese magic pill solutions and start taking responsibility for theirown health. People are figuring out that if they go to the doctor and

believe everything their doctor tells them, they'll most likely end upon one or more prescription drugs that will turn out to be unsafeyears down the road, after the damage has been done. Most of thesedrugs are just giant experiments. And people are just guinea pigs to

the drug companies. These drugs are not well tested. They're not inwidespread use. All these trials have been carefully selected andconstructed, but afterward they are distorted anyway. These are notsafe drugs, but the drug companies know they can make enough money to

fend off the lawsuits and even settle with patients, so they stillcome out ahead, even when their drugs literally kill people by thethousands.But that's the big trend coming -- massive nationwide lawsuits against

the pharmaceutical companies with the states and the Attorney Generalgetting involved. People like Eliot Spitzer, a fantastic champion ofprotecting the public and going after corrupt corporations will play a

part. We've got states right now suing drug companies for all kinds ofbilling fraud. We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars infraud, in which these pharmaceutical companies would just over-billstates.

I saw statistics in which some drug companies were billing states, Ibelieve, $900 for a bottle of electrolyte solution for IVs. Thisshould be about $20, and it's being billed at $900. It was a long list

of items being overcharged. The states were shelling out this money tothe pharmaceutical companies, being scammed one day after another,just like the American people are being scammed.I say the pharmaceutical industry is the greatest con ever perpetrated

on the American people. It's a huge con, and they've got everybodybehind it. They've got the FDA backing it up, they've got the doctorsand the medical profession, and even the medical schools and the

medical journals behind it. A lot of the mainstream media as well,because the drug companies spend so much money in advertising thatthey can pick up the phone and talk to the editors of these bigmagazines and news networks. They have influence because they spend

the bucks. It's a huge con and it has far-reaching implications, andits roots are deep and widespread throughout society. It's going to bedifficult to get rid of this, but times are changing.History will not judge Big Pharma kindly

Some day, Big Pharma will be looked at in much the same way that BigTobacco is looked at today. Today, Big Tobacco is not doing so wellhere in the United States. What has Big Tobacco done? They have turned

to the international market. The American people finally figured outthat cigarettes are a dangerous product and started passing laws aboutnot selling cigarettes to minors, restricting the advertising oftobacco companies, and so on. But the tobacco companies figured out

that they can exploit other countries. " Let's go sell cigarettes inChina. " Guess what, the smoking rate in China is skyrocketing. They're sellinga whole lot of cigarettes over there, and killing a lot of Chinese

people in the meantime. We're talking about Hong Kong, China, Taiwan,Japan, Thailand, North and South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore,Indonesia, and all throughout Southeast Asia. We have a huge smokingproblem and it's the American cigarette companies that are over there

exploiting those populations and literally poisoning and killing thosepeople just to make a buck, because they figured out they couldn'tmake their money over here in the US anymore. The game was up. Theygot caught red handed here in the US.

Eventually some of those other countries will figure it out too.Hopefully, we eventually won't have a tobacco industry in this countryor anywhere in the world. That would be ideal. Hopefully, people don't

need to inhale these deadly products.When the backlash happens against Big Pharma, we're going to see thesame thing. Big Pharma here will finally have to get creative and tryto sell their products overseas. They will very likely start

exploiting Asia again. There's a whole lot of people over there, theyneed drugs too. They'll go over there and try to discredit traditionalChinese medicine, and they will try to discredit herbs andacupuncture, just like they've done here in the US. They will create a

market where they force people to have only one option for treatingdiseases or symptoms: prescription drugs.The same scam worked here in the US. They convinced most people thatdrugs are the answer, even doctors, who are smart people. Why not try

it in Asia as well? I'm sure they will. They're doing it already. Theywill just accelerate it as they become exposed here in the US, aspeople learn the truth about the dangers of prescription drugs.A few legitimate uses of drugs

With all this talk about the pharmaceutical industry, you might say, " Mike, don't you have anything good to say about the pharmaceuticalindustry? " Yes, sure. It's great to have antibiotics if they're used

properly, which they aren't. They're overused today. It's great tohave anesthetics. If you need a surgical procedure because you've beenin a car crash or you've experienced some kind of physical trauma orinjury, you need anesthetics. You need antibiotics during that

surgery. You need this technology to help put you back togetherphysically.Traditional, organized Western medicine has a place. I don't denythat. Even prescription drugs can have a place if used temporarily,

only for short term treatment of acute symptoms and acute conditions,and only when paired with education and lifestyle changes that canhelp that patient eliminate the very causes of the conditions that

created that disease in the first place. The pharmaceutical industrydoes have a place; but frankly, it's only justified role in society ismaybe something like one-twentieth of its current size. We don't need

40 percent of the population taking pharmaceuticals at any one time,we only need about 2 percent. The other 38 percent should be onnutritional healing programs. They should be on lifestyle changes,strength training, physical exercise, exposure to natural sunlight,

and consumption of fresh water on a more regular basis. They also needhealing foods and healing therapies. They don't need drugs.Where is the shame of doctors?Doctors will some day look back on this and they will be embarrassed

that they supported prescription drugs for so long. They will beembarrassed in the same way as they are today about the truth thatthey promoted cigarettes. No doctor is proud of being associated witha profession and with an American Medical Association that has

actually promoted these things in the past. The American MedicalAssociation has even been convicted twice in the federal courts ofconspiracy, for conspiracy to discredit chiropractic medicine.This is a history that doctors shouldn't be proud of. Perhaps a lot of

them don't even know this history, but this is the real history ofmedical doctors in this country. In the future they will look back totoday and say, " We are ashamed that we promoted all of these drugs,

that we prescribed them without teaching patients how to be healthy.We are ashamed of our profession, and it's time to make some changes. " They indeed should be ashamed, because right now old school medical

doctors are doing tremendous harm.The first rule of medicine: Do no harm. That has been forgotten,because every time a doctor sees a patient, spends three minutes withthat patient, writes a prescription, and sends them out the door to go

to the pharmacy, that's doing harm. That is irresponsible medicine. Infact, it is not even healing at all. It's not even being a doctor.The word " doctor " means " teacher " , according to the Latin root. Where

is the teaching in our doctors today? It's not present, except in thereally great doctors. But by and large, the run-of-the-mill generalpractitioners are not teaching anybody anything. They're writingprescriptions and getting them out of the office.

Some say, " We don't have time to teach people. " Then, what are youdoing? What are you doing as a doctor? What are you doing in thisprofession if you don't have time to help people? Didn't you get into

medicine because you wanted to help people? Stop wasting your timebeing a slave of the drug companies. You will be embarrassed aboutthat some day, believe me; instead, go study naturopathy. Go learnnutrition (see related ebook on nutrition). Go help people in

meaningful ways. Don't be part of the machine that is causing pain,suffering, destruction, and death in our society and around the worldright now. That machine is set up for one purpose, which is financial

profit. Refuse to be part of that machine.Just say no to prescription drugsFor the rest of us, we can cause the vanishing of both Big Tobacco andBig Pharma by simply not purchasing their products. We can go

somewhere else, we can do something different. We can use homeopathicremedies or acupuncture to treat our acute systems. We can usenutritional healing and lifestyle changes to prevent chronic diseaseso that we don't become a patient in the first place. We won't suffer

from Alzheimer's and dementia and these so called " aging diseases, " which really have almost nothing to do with aging; but modern medicineloves to describe it that way to try to make you think it's inevitable.

We can make these changes. We don't have to be a customer of organizedmedicine. We can say " No " to cigarettes; we can say " No " toprescription drugs. We can find alternatives. I encourage you to take

responsibility for your own health, to seek out those alternatives anduse them. Don't be a victim. Don't be exploited by tobacco companiesor pharmaceutical companies just so that you can make their CEOs rich

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