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Originally Posted by fazool
Do you remember in the 50's when doctors used to advertise cigarettes as good for you? They did. Why? Because there was a tobacco industry making a lot of money off it.
Do you remember in the 90's when Ritalin was the most prescribed drug in America and doctors were pumping it down kids throats in shocking percentages? Why? Because there was a pharmaceutical industry making a lot of money off it.
Do you remember when Americans were convinced that regulated and safest drinking water in the world was dangerous and they had to buy and landfill plastic bottles of water eight times a day? Why? Because there is a bottled water industry making a lot of money off it.
you get my point......
Anywhere someone can latch on to rare problems to make money and they will.
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I do remember all of that.... Do you remember the Super Bowl commercial where there are three long haired young people hiking in the mountains and one guy stops to fill a water bottle and says "we should bottle and sell this water " and the other guys says " ha!! who would pay for bottled water ? "