That's not the only factor, though. If someone else is avoiding selling a cure to do something more profitable, you can compete with them by selling the cure and still make enough.
There simply isn't a "cure for pain" to replace painkillers, but statins and co could be avoided if we taught people actual good diet advice.
The worst problem with statins is the personality changes: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-...
…which doctors wouldn't admit existed because they aren't taught that "evidence of absence is not absence of evidence".
