The real purpose of these efforts was to support research favourable to the tobacco industry, create scientific controversy, and discredit scientific research viewed as threatening to the industry
Effects of passive smoking on childrens health: a review
Reynolds provided breakfast to thousands of attendees at the American Academy of Family Physicians Annual Scientific Assembly in Dallas.) FACE-OFF: SMOKING AND HEALTH Doctors should reject tobacco money/ Dont reject money that does good. Dueling op-ed columns by Alan Blum, MD and Harry Schwartz USA Today October 15, 1990 For corporate chutzpah, its hard to top RJR Nabisco, which touts its Fleischmanns margarine as a protector against heart disease while continuing to reap fat profits from its many cigarette brands, like Winston and CamelSwitching from butter to margarine is of negligible benefit for the person who keeps smoking or the teenager who takes it up
Tennessee collects $4,912 in state and local tax collections per capita, carries $5,883 in state and local debt per capita, and has a 115 percent funded ratio of public pension plans