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Tag: Tobacco smoking

  • How Australia’s Tobacco Excise Produced Crime

    The cutting of pleasures, the trimming of delights and telling people how they can enjoy life, is the sort of thing that will be tolerated, up to a point. Otherwise liberal countries do suffer moral convulsions, be it about sex, drug taking, smoking and boozing. Regulations and laws are inevitably passed, much of it tolerated. […]

  • The Distortion of Science

    Starting in the mid-20th century, companies began distorting and manpulating science to favor specific commercial interests. Big tobacco is both the developer and the poster child of this strategy. When strong evidence that smoking caused lung cancer emerged in the 1950s, the tobacco industry began a campaign to obscure this fact. The Unmaking of Science […]

  • Unsmoking the World: The Philip Morris Rebranding Effort

    God really must love Philip Morris. — John Safran, Haaretz, November 29, 2021 John Safran is a scamp, but in the finest tradition of investigative ones.  With the enthusiasm of a bloodhound, he gets wind of a scent and goes for it.  Of recent interest to his gonzo style of comedic yet lethal line of […]

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