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.)
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #13 2024
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Open access notables
*A survey of interventions to actively conserve the frozen North*, van
Wijngaarden et al., *Climatic Change:*
*The frozen elements o...
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