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In the early ‘90s, the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, a faux grassroots organization, started casting doubt on global warming. Big Oil was behind the effort. And as Guardian columnist George Monbiot explains, Big Tobacco was too.
Regarding tobacco smoke science, most if it is the spawn not of "big tobacco" but "big pharma", funded mostly by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which has a huge stake in profits from the sales of pharmaceutical nicotine products as a lifestyle choice. When is comest to "cherry-picking" date, shills for Big Pharma like Stanton Glantz at the U Cal San Francisco are masters at it, doing bogus epidemiology for hire. Even the EPA through out his garbage statistics. Much ballyhooed dangers from secondhand smoke are the biggest scientific fraud in the last 100 years. I'll bet this post gets censored and buried because no sober dissent is allowed on this subject.
Pardon the spelling...should have checked.
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