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Profits before health. Joe Camel. You are correct in that it is not a good direct comparison once you get beyond the motivation. My point was that both big industries really have little concern for the long-term damage that they might be causing. If they can sell product legally they will do it even if they know that they are harming people.
https://www.lung.org/research/sotc/by-the-numbers/10-bad-things-to-entice-kids
You can see in this video that even though they are dealing with children (I consider 12 years old a child) they are still only focused on recurrence. No discussion at all about the long-term effects on the child’s body development. In other fields, like joint injuries, it is well-known, for example, that the growth plate should not be disturbed or it will cause the bone growth to have problems. Always focused on the perfect one-time repair.
This video was accepted by SAGES as representative of “state-of-the-art”. It is the Masters Hernia section of their conference. They are promoting mesh repairs for children. I will post another video from Dr. Ponsky giving his views on mesh repair in children.
The more you explore the more you see mesh being promoted for everything possible. I can’t imagine being a teenager and experiencing what I experienced when I had the mesh implants as a full grown worldly adult. I am sure that I would have ended up dead, by one means or another.