Politicians And Big Business Bad For Our Health

The Ed Vasey story only enshrines in my mind that you really shouldn't trust politicians (of any flavour) and big business because both will screw you over given the opportunity.
Conservative Peer Vasey, tabled a proposal to delay the UK’s tobacco and vapes act which would gradually raise the age at which consumers can buy cigarettes and other tobacco products, just after  the cigarette company whose IQOS product is the world-leading heated tobacco brand, paid for his visit and accommodation to its research facility in Switzerland.
Vasey put forward the amendment saying that more research should be done into the potential harms that such products such as heated tobacco can cause relative to cigarettes which is exactly the legal challenge brought by Philip Morris in 2023 against the proposed tobacco and vapes bill but was withdrawn after the previous Government challenged it.
Tobacco companies market heated tobacco products, which warm pre-rolled tobacco sticks to a lower temperature than traditional cigarettes, as a less harmful alternative to smoking because their studies have shown that the devices emit fewer harmful chemicals than cigarettes but doctors and researchers have said that most of the research into heated tobacco has been paid for by the industry, and that the long-term health are unknown but inhaling any tobacco is known to be a danger to health.
Cigarette manufacturer Phillip Morris once tried to spin a report into smoking in the Czech Republic as having 'positive effects' on the nation’s economy.
There was the revenue from excise and other taxes on cigarettes before smokers met their demise, and the 'health-care cost savings due to early mortality' savings were weighed against the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses, and the lost taxes no longer paid by dead smokers, the Czech Republic actually came out ahead.
When asked if they were seriously basing it on their products were so lethal that people actually dying prematurely was a selling point, they replied that they were not suggesting that there is a benefit to society from the diseases related to smoking.
No, of course they weren't, that would be absurd, they are basically national heroes.