03-19-2019, 04:29 AM
Example: the ridiculous level to which anti-tobacco efforts have been mobilized.
And what, pray tell, is the harm in there being no tobacco use, second hand or first? After the deception of the tobacco industry has been lifted doesn't it make sense that we move beyond its use?
It's the same as with climate change where the denier's mantra was invented by the fossil fuel industry itself, and only taken up by politicians and the weak minded among their constituencies that are so easily manipulated, to serve their greedy ends. A timeline history of Exxon's efforts to hide climate science from the masses...
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-wa...-timeline/
Which almost perfectly follows the same model of deception and denial that the tobacco industry employed to hide the harmful effects of their products..
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/
Thankfully the kids are getting the message. Why should we pander to the few that aren't?
And what, pray tell, is the harm in there being no tobacco use, second hand or first? After the deception of the tobacco industry has been lifted doesn't it make sense that we move beyond its use?
It's the same as with climate change where the denier's mantra was invented by the fossil fuel industry itself, and only taken up by politicians and the weak minded among their constituencies that are so easily manipulated, to serve their greedy ends. A timeline history of Exxon's efforts to hide climate science from the masses...
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-wa...-timeline/
Which almost perfectly follows the same model of deception and denial that the tobacco industry employed to hide the harmful effects of their products..
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/
Thankfully the kids are getting the message. Why should we pander to the few that aren't?