[Gabz]

Levin said that money for the research is coming from pharmaceutical companies, federal grant-givers, charitable foundations, and tobacco companies. The tobacco money tends to be given in a ''very gingerly way'' -- putting no pressure on researchers for desired results -- because the companies have had so much bad publicity, he said.

UH-OH of this list of funding sources the gnatzies will only pick up of big bad tobacco - leaving out the fact that of course the pharmaceuticals are the ones that will reap the benefit of synthesized products.

idiots.

[A. Pole]

UH-OH of this list of funding sources the gnatzies will only pick up of big bad tobacco - leaving out the fact that of course the pharmaceuticals are the ones that will reap the benefit of synthesized products.

The real and better stuff will be forbidden together with the cheaper pharmaceutical version from Canada. The invisible hand of "free" market at work!

[CSM]

"The tobacco money tends to be given in a ''very gingerly way'' -- putting no pressure on researchers for desired results --"

I thought the opposite was the case, the tobacco companies are the only ones with an agenda and they scew all studies to fit that agenda.