Announcing a boycott of Tums antacids by Glaxo / Smith-Kline

Announcing a boycott of Tums antacids by Glaxo / Smith-Kline

I have decided to place this product under boycott and include it with the boycott of Pharmacy Chains Eckerd, CVS, Walgreens and Walmart.

Glaxo Smith Kline

US corporate switchboard:
+1 888 825 5249
US Customer Response Center:
+1 888 825 5249

Call Glaxo Smith Kline and tell someone in the public relations department that you will no longer buy Tums until their CEO gets congress to


1 to repeal Medicare Part D

2 repeal the means test for Medicare Part B

3 to enact a prescription drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80 percent of all medications
with no extra monthly premium, no extra annual deductible, no means test, no coverage gap,
and no late sign up penalties.

and that this bill passes the Senate and House and gets signed by the President.

proposals about boycotting Exxon Mobil that were proposed here last year.

Good luck with this one, OK?

Redstone

ever since the the Exxon Valdez "incident" (aka massive oil spill in Alaska that did much damage!).

I don't know if it helps or not but at least I still walk the talk and the Exxon Valdez wasn't yesterday either.

Redstone: Whatever ...

the full saying: "You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?"

Redstone

to support Chavez. Sometimes on a road trip we need gas in some out of the way place but we buy Shell over Exxon because usually there's a choice of one or the other in "outta the way" places.

but I've been boycotting both Shell and Exxon for years. Shell is for another reason though. A friend of my late mother had a son that worked for them and was killed in an accident on the job (he worked for Shell Oil). She wouldn't buy from them after that and I never have either.

We all have our reasons whatever they may or may not be.

In my case, both are cases of extreme disgust.

CountAllVotes

Redstone

and I'm know they don't miss me as a customer,
but it makes ME feel better. My money. I decide.

my patronage either, but I do feel virtuous somehow by not shopping there.

My negative comment was actually pointed to people who try to organize mass boycotts (which NEVER end up happening), rather than individual ones like yours or mine.

OK?

Redstone

so my money goes to Hugo Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

No Middle Eastern oil money for me. Why should I enrich the Saudis, the Iranians,
the Iraqis, the friends of Bush and Cheney? And no Lukoil - no money for Putin.

Fortunately there are two Citgo gas stations right nearby.

who won't touch Exxon. So how many more folks are like that out there WHO WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY DID IN ALASKA and what they've NOT DONE to clean it all up.

It's just a small drop but it's principle of it. :shrug:

Redstone

difference somewhere...or at least folks can hope so. :shrug:

to a "call to action to boycott TUMS."

Come on. It's just unrealistic, and you know it. And it makes the people who issue that "call to action" just look foolish.

Redstone

Citgo & occasionally Wilco Hess.

to boycott a random company because of the deficiencies the medicare system.

Congress does that stuff, not Glaxo.

Dammit, I'm not drinking Fresca until Congress gives me a pony!

just seem to get sillier and sillier, don't they?

I mean, boycott Tums? What's next, boycott Kotex?

Spare me.

Redstone

the funniest part is that has zero chance of working. Are people REALLY going to unite as brothers and sisters to lead a worldwide boycott against Tums because of the arcane provisions of the Medicare laws?
No.

The OP and maybe one other person will join this boycott. And Glaxo will do fine without the $8 in annual Tums sales those two people would otherwise generate.

Personally, I'm boycotting Conde-Nast publications until the World Bank reduces debt obligations in Sub-Saharan Africa via a combination of loan-forgiveness, small-business incentives and direct aid, the actual details of which you can on my bumpersticker.

Can you tell me where it is?

Redstone