Finance Trivia

[yesthattom]

“Pfizer and Philip Morris are both worth about $150 billion. Both pay about 4% dividend.Both trade at similar P/Es. One cures diseases for millions of people worldwide. One kills millions of people worldwide. PFE is at a yearly low. MO is trading near an all time high.”

http://www.andrewtobias.com/newcolumns/051228.html

Comments

[pyffe.livejournal.com]

People who smoke kill themselves. Phillip Morris just supplies the guns. As an ex-smoker, I used to pull my own trigger. Nobody pulled it for me. I'd like to see them eliminated, but so long as it's legal...

[xthread.livejournal.com]

You're surprised that it costs more to cure diseases for millions of people than it does to kill them?
Or you're surprised that when given the choice more people spend more money on killing themselves than on curing themselves?

I mean, it makes a good snarky observation, but what insight were you trying to point out?

[tim1965.livejournal.com]

"Both make billions off the suffering of others. Both charge monopoly prices for their products, and both seek government protection for their products while publicly whining about desirability of the 'free market'."

Andrew Tobias clearly doesn't know anything about how Pfizer and the pharmaceutical company fuck sick people over.

[lilbjorn.livejournal.com]

Drug companies and tobacco companies - symbiotic parasites.