For years Allen Carr tried to convince the UK tobacco control establishment to look at the incredible success rates he was achieving with his simple, fast, drug-free approach, with a view to making it freely available to all smokers wanting to quit.
Allen said to me that he felt like he had a cure for cancer, but nobody in authority wanted to know. According to Allen, the tobacco control bureaucracy was no different than any other inept government body - slow-moving, bureaucratic and biased. His frustration was partially born out of the unwavering support by the establishment towards Nicotine Reaplcement Therapy which has comparitively low success rates. He felt that this support was based on the funding provided by the drug companies that manufacture these products.
Allen wrote about this at length in his final book, Scandal, which can be downloaded free of charge at http://www.allencarr.com/
The Wall St. Journal's Kevin Helliker wrote a fascinating article about the influence of drug companies in the formation of public health policy in this field. To read more go to http://www.aerzteinitiative.at/PharmaTies07.htm
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