Mary Sue Coleman, President, University of Michigan
Mary Sue Coleman, Corporate Board of Directors, Johnson & Johnson
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, created by founder of Johnson & Johnson
RWJF owns 42,343,491 shares of JnJ stock
RWJF gave over $446,000,000 in "grants" for tobacco control. Read their publications
here and
here to see who the big money winners were! Since these RJWF Anthology Tobacco Control chapters were published, RJWF has granted additional MILLIONS in tobacco control grants.
J&J (and RWJF) profit from the sales of Nicoderm, Nicoderm CQ, Nicorette gum and the new Nicorette mint
Present at the December,
2009 signing of Michigan's smoke-free law were Governor Granholm, University of Michigan, School of Public Health Dean Kenneth Warner, and Mikelle Robinson. Coleman's and Warner's University of Michigan has received approximately
$20,000,000 in grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mikelle Robinson is on the
Board of Directors of Americans for Nonsmokers Rights. She serves as Vice-President. She ALSO works for the
State of Michigan in a government position with the Michigan Tobacco Control Network. One of their primary functions is to act as a resource for other national partners: American Legacy Foundation, Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC) and Tobacco-Free Kids (TFK). According to
TTAC's website, it's
founders are the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Legacy Foundation and the American Cancer Society (who shared $99,000,000 in RWJF tobacco control grants with the American Lung Association and American Heart Association). Tobacco-Free Kids was
created and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with a start-up of $84,000,000.
How could anyone believe any of this to be a coincidence? They ALL get money from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Some nannies may argue that is a considerable amount of money for a concerned charitable foundation to invest.
Invest is the correct word. It's an INVESTMENT into the best marketing scheme money can buy. In one month alone, Glaxo Smith Kline (who markets J&J's form of alternate nicotine) claimed it
sold 1,000,000 boxes of Nicoderm CQ, Nicorette gum and Commit Lozenges. The price of a box of big pHARMa's nicotine is around $52. That's $52,000,000 in JUST ONE MONTH IN SALES.
It's all about the money and Michiganders have been sold out to big pHARMa.
By the way, when Michigan bans sugar and jumps on the obesity band wagon, check back. I'll tell you how J&J owns SPLENDA and the EthiconEndo Surgery Company that does the weight reduction surgery. In fact EthiconEndo just funded a survey that concluded.....wait for it.... it's cost effective for insurance companies to pay for the weight reduction surgeries!! RWJF has almost caught up the figure they gave away in Tobacco Control grants...they've given half a billion dollars in obesity grants so far.