And we found that, you know, basically the pharmaceutical company and the Robert Wood Johnson foundation funded almost every single country developing country to go to this meeting. And when you got there, you had Tobacco Free Kids, you had all these lobbying groups that were also funded by pharmaceutical companies and by Robert Wood Johnson and other foundations. that wanted to try to crush tobacco. Now, the issue here is that because pharmaceutical companies were funding all of these efforts. They were basically saying, we've got the cure for smoking. (17:16–17:27)
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