Morals and delicious fags

[DeskJockey]

No tobacco, airlines or tabloids.

[Explosive Newt]

A friend’s dad, who was (is still) a big cheese in the world of cardiology - published trials, presented big data at international conferences, etc - what would be called a key opinion leader, I suppose. Up until about ten years ago, he smoked. Somehow, a tobacco company got wind of this.

They offered him a million quid to put his name to some relatively innocuous statement about how cigarettes might not be that bad for you. Something like “there are some benefits to smoking.”

He thought hard about it. But concluded that he would never make any money again afterwards so declined the offer.

[Gavster]

Yes, its like something out of Austin Powers or James Bond when you make the obvious realisation that all these companies are so big that of course they have lots of normal people doing normal stuff like admin, PC support etc.

I do feel like I've made the right decision. Agent was pissed off.

If you’d gone for it, it might have bugged you all the time you worked on it, so sounds like the right decision

[Broccers]

I bet most of you have pensions invested in some tabac firms