My definition of a good book on tobacco is that I learn things I didn’t already know from reading it. Lauren Etter’s new book, The Devil’s Playbook, easily meets and surpasses this standard. Deeply researched beginning with key events in the 1980s, she documents the rise and decline on Juul e-cigarettes and how, at leastContinue reading ““The Devil’s Playbook” is a great read”
Category Archives: investments
Which health care companies treat tobacco diseases — but also buy tobacco stocks?
As You Sow, a Smokefree Movies partner, released a new report on October 28, 2020: Smoke & Mirrors: Healthcare company retirement plans are addicted to tobacco The report uncovers the surprising fact that tobacco firms — and media companies that push tobacco — are embedded in retirement plans at Abbott Laboratories, Becton Dickinson, CVS Health, DaVita, HCAContinue reading “Which health care companies treat tobacco diseases — but also buy tobacco stocks?”
Money talks. Why are top healthcare companies invested in … Tobacco?
As You Sow, one of our partners in the Smokefree Movies project, is releasing a new report, Smoke & Mirrors: Healthcare company retirement plans are addicted to tobacco, on Wednesday Wed, October 28 at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT. The report uncovers the surprising fact that tobacco (and media companies that promote tobacco) is embedded inContinue reading “Money talks. Why are top healthcare companies invested in … Tobacco?”
Stanton Glantz blog 