Re: My dear, those huge profits in aspirin....

Because white willow bark is much more expensive than aspirin

http://www.amazon.com/Natures-Way-White-Willow-Capsules/dp/B0001VWBGE/ref=sr_...

and in most cases only available at much higher mg than baby aspirin

http://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Dose-Aspirin-bottles/dp/B002RL8FKW/r...

which is the amount shown in many of the studies that were cited.

Why can't "logical" individuals accept the fact that 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17443454

.....Taking a low (75-300mg) daily dose of the drug appeared to cut the total number of cancer cases by about a quarter after only three years - there were nine cancer cases per 1,000 each year in the aspirin-taking group, compared with 12 per 1,000 for those taking dummy pills.

.....And if patients stayed on aspirin for longer, their cancer death risk went down even further - by 37% after five years.

Aspirin is simply a manufactured element of willow bark.  It's not that the link above is promoting aspirin and wild living as a way to prevent cancer, in fact in the study review a doctor says:

...for most fit and healthy people, the most important things they can do to reduce their lifetime cancer risk is to give up smoking, take exercise and have a healthy diet.

Are you aware Chris that the most difficult advice for a lung or throat cancer patient to follow is to - quit smoking?  Even after lung removal?  Just looking around us both in the USA and UK, how far does the advice of "...exercise and have a healthy diet go?"  It ain't working!  That's what Michelle Obama promotes here in the USA and millions of people hate her for it.