Suppose for a moment that I had just signed a prescription for you. Would you still trust my decision if I had used a pen with the drug's logo printed on it? What if the company's representative had treated my whole firm to dinner the previous evening? The majority of...
The tobacco industry has been repeatedly embarrassed this year. In June, the cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris was ordered to pay $3bn (£2.1bn) in damages to a 56 year old American with lung and brain cancer, one of the largest awards ever made to an individual smoker. A separate judgement in...