No, not at all. He's a cousin, not my brother. And just because he worked for them, doesn't mean that I am a friend of big Pharma.
I use something called an electronic cigarette -- it's a personal vaporizer that delivers nicotine -- a healthier alternative to cigarettes. We just went through a big fight here in CA where big Pharma backed a politician who introduced legislation to make e-cigs illegal. Why? Because Big Pharma wants people to use THEIR nicotine replacement products, not some unregulated product like e-cigs. We won for now when Gov Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill.
Big Pharma has big money and lots of political power -- and they will use it wherever they can for their own benefit, not ours.