Re: RANT – Classic Barbershop as smoky as a Las Vegas casino

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Julie
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http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2006/index.htm

Follow the bibliography database link on that page to find abstracts of about 900 reports.

The tobacco industry is well-known for its strategy of casting doubt on scientific consensus:

“In 1992, a major EPA report warned of the medical harm from second hand smoke. In response, Philip Morris hired the PR firm APCO to create a supposedly independent group, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC), to promote scientists who’d dispute this harm. Enlisting enough other corporate supporters so the effort didn’t seem just a tobacco industry creation, TASSC’s mission echoed the phrase from a memo of fellow tobacco company Brown and Williamson, “Doubt is our product.””

(From Paul Loeb’s article, “TARGET GLOBAL WARMING, TARGET EXXON”, available here:

http://www.paulloeb.org/articles/Exxon.html)