tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8237846547805652402.post1757147721896640094..comments2014-02-03T14:46:43.219-05:00Comments on EP-ology by Carl V. Phillips: Anna Gilmore adds junk economics to her junk epidemiology portfolioCarl V Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01919902852457771666noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8237846547805652402.post-30043704845806314122010-09-29T21:22:03.900-04:002010-09-29T21:22:03.900-04:00DaveA you do the lady Gilmore a disservice. After ...DaveA you do the lady Gilmore a disservice. After her magnificent torturing of numbers and reason to claim that the English smoking ban had reduced MI admissions by 2.4% the woman was promoted to Professor. I note that in the only profession in which she is actually trained, she never held a job for more than a few months and decided at an early age that she could "best contribute" by abandoning her calling (and our huge investment in her training) and moving into public health. Can you imagine any other discipline in which it is possible to achieve promotion by not publishing your methods and blatantly misleading the public through press releases and radio interviews? OK so maybe politics but I can’t think of any politician who has ever enjoyed such uncritical press coverage as Gilmore.Chris Oakleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11565704648953031588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8237846547805652402.post-90135196836280192922010-09-28T10:37:07.344-04:002010-09-28T10:37:07.344-04:00Just written this comment.
I am sure underneath t...Just written this comment.<br /><br />I am sure underneath the chthonic thought processes of Dr. Gilmore the odd fact may appear one day. Although it does appear in the aetiology between grey matter and rational argument seem to be in a process of disconnect. Dr. Gilmore's Marxist self conciousness knows no bounds.<br /><br />In economic terms anti tobacco have created a faux market. In economic terms there are significant barriers to entry to any new tobacco manufacturer and distributor with the ban on advertising. So any market power is your fault Dr. Gilmore.<br /><br />Good heavens you even admit it: "These problems have been exaggerated by unintended consequences of tobacco control policies."<br /><br />Your paper says "...market failure, excess profits..wherein a cap is placed on the manufacturers' price but not on the retail price that consumers face."<br /><br />Could you define "excess profits?" Pension funds I am very sure are grateful for the dividends and the pensioners whose income is dependent on fund performance and receipts. I am sure the 80,000 people in th UK employed directly and indirectly in the tobacco industry are happy that they have an income that can put bread on the table. <br /><br />Additionally would you like to see what has happened in the pub industry where 10,000 pubs have closed and 120,000 full and part time jobs have gone mainly of people who have the lest chance of securing another one.<br /><br />"Such a system would increase government revenue by transferring the excess profits from the industry to the government purse."<br /><br />After 13 years of socialism under Labour, surely it lays bare how wasteful government spending is. Are you seriously suggesting that the ?5.8 trillion, if you include public sector public pension liabilies, that the government can spend my money better than I can?<br /><br />"..market its products and lobby against tobacco control measures would be curtailed."<br /><br />So tobacco companies are to be denied their democratic rights? People like you and public funded bodies like ASH can?<br /><br />"Finally, it could offer a means of preventing down-trading to cheaper tobacco products and controlling other unwanted industry practices such as cigarette smuggling, price fixing and marketing to the young."<br /><br />I get all my tobacco from erm... a mate of mine who has a white van and coincidentally happens to pick up the odd packet when in Belgium, like 64% of other roll your own smokers in the UK and and 24% of cigarette smokers. This will only increase with your measures.<br /><br />You tobacco control policies will turn tobacco into the new crack cocaine and heroin. Gangs will fight over their "manor" with guns and violence in the supply of illegal tobacco. In Ireland the Real IRA are the main "importers" of smuggled tobacco, elsewhere it is the Mafia, Triads even the Taliban. <br /><br />Even hope may fail to fly out of Pandora's box.DaveAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249090980650806030noreply@blogger.com