A new history of anti-smoking documents the cigarette’s journey from patriotic necessity ('Don't forget the cigarettes for Tommy') to pariah status. In 1997 the Master Settlement Agreement forced the tobacco firms to pay up $246 billion, much of it spent on anti-smoking measures.
After decades of barefaced lying (in the Economist's words), Big Tobacco had found itself outspent and outmanoeuvred.
(The links between Big Tobacco and the climate-change denial industry are outlined here.)
I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem
– it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin
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As an oceanographer, I study how the ocean shapes our world. For Australia
and other nations, the lesson is urgent
Antarctica is often viewed as the last...
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