Nothing surprises me when it comes to the tobacco industry and looking at how doctors have been cashing in from pharmaceuticals (that have mixed results, no less) this story should not be much of a surprise either. It's nice to see that people everywhere can benefit from the words of wisdom from experts like this.
The claims were published yesterday by the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, which said four of the country's top medical research scientists had received millions of Deutschmarks for publishing biased reports about smoking during the 1980s and early 1990s.The only Nazi connection I see is the aspect of corruption that dominated back then. Welcome to the club, professor.
Professor von Troschke was said to have received more than DM700,000 for publishing his research, which included a report entitled the "psycho-sociological uses of smoking" in which he dismissed claims that smoking was addictive.
Der Spiegel described him as an active opponent of discrimination against smokers who used a caricature of a smoker with a "sort of Jewish star" pinned on his breast to illustrate the "pogrom-mentality" of the anti-smoking lobby.
