Chapter 29 The tobacco Industry

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The tobacco Industry: General

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"The tobacco industry has used three primary arguments to prevent government

regulation of its products and to defend itself in product liability lawsuits. First, tobacco

companies have consistently claimed that there is no conclusive proof that smoking

causes diseases such as cancer and heart disease. Second, tobacco companies

have claimed that smoking is not addictive and that anyone who smokes makes a

free choice to do so. And, finally, tobacco companies have claimed that they are

committed to determining the scientific truth about the health effects of tobacco, both

by conducting internal research and by funding external research."

The Cigarette Papers, p. 199

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In 1994, the Council for Tobacco Research, funded by the tobacco industry,

distributed more than $19.5 million to scientists.

Canadian Medical Association Journal, January 15, 1996

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"The tobacco industry's public relations efforts during the 'safe' cigarette era consisted

largely of an attempt to confuse the public about the scientific evidence on the

dangers of smoking. Whether those efforts involved in-house handbooks, books and

magazine articles written on behalf of the industry, or advertising campaigns, the thrust

of the material was the same: create doubt in the public mind about what the scientific

evidence really says and then attack the notion that the government should meddle in

the tobacco industry's business without having definitive proof of harmful effects of

smoking. To this end, the industry enlisted the support of powerful friends in the

political world as well as in the media, and sometimes failed to disclose the fact that

certain people expressing a viewpoint sympathetic to the industry had direct financial

ties to the industry."

The Cigarette Papers, p. 199

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