Tobacco companies are clearly in the running for the title of the most evil, lying, despicable companies on Earth, relentlessly marketing a product that when used as intended causes disease and death. Last Week Tonight takes on the issue of how tobacco companies are targeting people in other countries as the anti-smoking campaigns in the US cut into their profits here. In the process, he shows how news can be investigative, informative, and hard-hitting and yet interesting and worth watching.
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I knew they were despicable and dishonest, but suing a nation of 600,000 because they tried to exercise their sovereignty within their own borders, and straight out lying to aother nation?
Tobacco companies are clearly in the running for the title of the most evil, lying, despicable companies on Earth, relentlessly marketing a product that when used as intended causes disease and death.
They are cheerful little bubbling babies compared to the oil companies.
I just passed the 4 year smoke-free mark, and I’ll be damned if I still don’t crave a cigarette several times a week. Evil, evil stuff.
The fuckers who run the tobacco companies are basically the same people who ran the opium-based rape of China. They’d be sending gunboats to overthrow governments if they could.
Oliver’s treatment is brilliant. I hope it catches on big, very big.
As I understand it these corporations are established with a requirement in the articles of incorporation that they act in the public good. Threatening small states with massive legal action doesn’t, IMHO, qualify as “in the public good”. Why can’t these organization be Dis-incorporated if they violate the terms of their incorporation?
This piece is brilliant. It shows what a-holes the tobacco companies are. I want one of those t-shirts!
Oliver has apparently just signed a new contract with HBO, so he won’t be replacing Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. And I’m glad. Oliver’s work on TDS was excellent, but a longer format seems to suit him. For example, his best work on TDS was his 3-part report on gun laws in Oz vs the US. Much of his work Last Week Tonight has been stunning. His takedown of FIFA just before the World Cup was just brilliant. As was his piece on Civil Forfeiture (how is that even legal?). In his piece on the Scottish independence, he even ate some haggis. A braver man than me.
To be fair, all these stories about the bizarre unpalatable of haggis is pure bullshit. It’s like a variant on sausage or meatloaf, but better.