Health insurers want you to keep smoking, Harvard doctors say : Scientific American Blog
Health and life insurance companies in the US and abroad have nearly $4.5 billion invested in tobacco stocks, according to Harvard doctors.
“It’s the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back,” says David Himmelstein, an internist at the Harvard Medical School and co-author of a letter published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The largest investor on the list is the Prudential with over $1.5bn invested in tobacco stocks.
Talk about hedging your bets...
