There are just a few heroes and many villains on the UK and international scene at present. With a nod to wider geopolitical events (and many works of fiction), this month’s Airwaves presents you with the heroes and villains of the respiratory system. While Bond villains might have their secret lair disguised within a volcano, the villains of the respiratory world have a more prosaic disguise. In the case of the tobacco industry’s latest attempt at legitimacy, the disguise comes in the form of the inhaler manufacturer ‘Vectura’. In this month’s Airwaves, Nick Hopkinson tells the sorry tale how tobacco company Phillip Morris has bought Vectura, a company which makes inhalers for a large number of pharmaceutical companies ( see page 537 ). The tobacco giant’s ruse is more devious than anything conceived by Dr No. Vectura manufacture platform technology which has been adopted by many pharmaceutical companies in order to deliver their products. This makes it more difficult to for prescribers to avoid prescribing inhalers manufactured by the tobacco industry. However, for a handy …

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本期亮点

目前在英国和国际舞台上只有少数英雄和许多恶棍。本月的 Airwaves 向更广泛的地缘政治事件（以及许多小说作品）致敬，向您展示了呼吸系统的英雄和恶棍。虽然邦德恶棍可能将他们的秘密巢穴伪装在火山中，但呼吸系统的恶棍有一个更平淡无奇的伪装。就烟草业最新的合法性尝试而言，伪装是以吸入器制造商“Vectura”的形式出现的。在本月的电波中，尼克霍普金森讲述了烟草公司菲利普莫里斯如何收购 Vectura 的悲惨故事，该公司为大量制药公司生产吸入器（见第 537 页）。这家烟草巨头的诡计比 No. 博士设想的任何东西都更加狡猾。Vectura 制造平台技术已被许多制药公司采用以交付其产品。这使得处方者更难避免使用烟草业制造的吸入器。然而，为了方便……