Tonight they lit 10 000 candles or so at
Kungstradgarden, to support Cancerfonden, the Swedish Cancer Society. This is for the occasion of Breast Cancer Awereness Month which is October.
It's great that people want to help and contribute to beat cancer - it should be natural so.
However, I do have some reservations when a non-profit cancer research organization is sponsored by a VERY much profit-oriented pharmaceutical company... which is in this case, Pfizer. Just doesn't make any freaking sense for me: why would a company that has the purpose of selling more and more drugs to cancer patients, support cancer research - which should aim for NO cancer???
Ten thousand or so, and 35.-SEK a piece goes to cancer research. The Cancerfonden has the target of more than 400M SEK per year. I wonder where does all that money go...
I wonder what do they research, when they already know that
"in Sweden, 70 percent of all cancer cases are caused by known lifestyle factors", according to the information on their
website. Nutrition, smoking, sun, etc.
To find out what is healthy food and that tobacco kills, shouldn't cost 400 000 000 SEK per year...
Anyway, I shouldn't spoil the spirit of well-intentioned civilians wanting to help cancer patients - as a cancer survivor myself, I highly appreciate their efforts!
And the candles looked magical.





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