Profit and Death

There is now medical consensus that the tobacco industry’s conflict of interest with public health is irreconcilable. The bad effects of smoking tobacco as well as ingesting significant quantities of alcohol and consuming over-processed foodstuffs include heart disease, stroke, some cancers, asthma, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, cataracts, and much more. They account for about 60% of all deaths.

The medical profession recognises the use and effects of such products as 'diseases' and, since you can't catch them from another person they are known as Non Communicable Diseases -- NCDs.

This week's guest In Conversation with Noel Cheer on Face Television is Professor Sally Casswell from the SHORE research centre at Massey University. She has written about NCDs in the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, under the title ‘Profits and Pandemics’.

"In Conversation with Noel Cheer", Face Television, Monday June 3rd at 7:00pm, repeated on Tuesday June 4th at 12 noon.
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