Tobacco Company Owned An Inhaler Company?

[wolf63]

Strange mix

https://www.ft.com/content/b4890310-7ad7-42fd-9dea-9a562ed4f6f3

If behind paywall - https://archive.ph/Tr1kf

 

 

[sandyRoe]

One product causes the problem, another tries to relieve the symptoms of it. They catch customers coming and going.

In Dublin Guinness funded the building of a doss house.  Most of the residents would have wound up there because they started on their products.

[douglas9401]

A bit like Nobel prizes.

[wolf63]

🐂🐂

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[Old_Geezer]

Did they make much from the doss house, or was it genuine altruism ?

[sandyRoe]

Old_Geezer

I think it was genuine.  They gave £50,000 for social housing and the Iveagh Hostel towards the end of the 19th Century.

[Canary42]

Altruistic Capitalism ?  Don't make me laugh.

[barry1010]

I remember the Marlborogh company buying Vectura, it was headline news a few years ago.  Cancer Research UK wasn't impressed

https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2021/07/09/american-tobacco-company-philip-morris-international-offers-1bn-for-uk-pharma-firm-vectura/