SAY.....DO Whaaaaaaat?

[FGB]

One of the most criticized industries in America is joining the race to stop the coronavirus epidemic.

Reynolds American, the North Carolina cigarette giant behind the Camel, Newport and Pall Mall brands, is infecting fast-growing tobacco plants with a genetically modified coronavirus to see if they can produce antibodies for a possible vaccine.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/could-tobacco-cure-coronavirus-don-120007352.html

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Well since their customer base is slowly dying off, I guess it seems to be a novel approach to increasing profits.

 

[FGB]

I don't care, I am NOT going to smoke tobacco again!

 

[phrodeau]

If they develop a vaccine, they’ll have the world by the short hairs.

 

[Sean]

Nothing new. Tobacco plants have been used for this kind of thing for decades.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Does Big Tobacco have its nocotine stained fingers in the pot industry? They'll be looking for other revenue streams.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

I don't care, I am NOT going to smoke tobacco again!

Good for you!!

BTW some of us never started.

 

[FGB]

Good for you!!

BTW some of us never started.

Well NOT done and stay that way.

The good you get out of it is not worth the money it cost, pain it puts you through and time it steals.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Well NOT done and stay that way.

The good you get out of it is not worth the money it cost, pain it puts you through and time it steals.

I have watched to many closes friends and relatives pass away from lung cancer. It is a horrible way to die.

I would not wish that death on my worse enemy.