# Gin & Quinine

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gin-quinine/188>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [August 16, 1999, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gin-quinine/188 "1999-08-16T20:42:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 1999, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gin-quinine/188/21 "1999-09-05T02:48:00Z")

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[[“I love it when the Teeming Millions profess to know more about a product than the guys who make the stuff. You better call up Schweppes and tell 'em why they really put that quinine in there.”  
REPLY:  
As the Special Master of Knowledge, you should know that corporations are poor sources for the full truth.]] pwalke  
Only, of course (putting aside the corporation/business conflation), if they have some financial interest in being less than truthful.  
[[Are there not some corporations who say that tobacco is not addictive?]]

That would be a prime example of such a situation.

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