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Tobacco Tactics for Climate Change Denial

By sb admin on October 1, 2008.

American News Project has just posted a new video segment about how tactics used to defend tobacco are now staving off action on climate change. In "Smoke and CO2: How to Spin Global Warming," Danielle Ivory gives an eight-minute overview of how we went from reassurances that tobacco isn't really harmful to insistence that we don't really need to worry about global warming. Our own David Michaels provides commentary.

Even if you already know all about how manufactured doubt has stalled progress on smoking cessation and greenhouse-gas reductions, it's worth watching the piece for its collection of ads and speeches by those trying to prevent regulation of their products. My favorite: former Philip Morris CEO Joseph Cullman, when asked about smoking's link to low-birthweight babies, saying "some women prefer having smaller babies."

Watch it here.

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