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Doubt Is Their Product
When governments know something causes harm, why does change take so long?
The world is on fire. The climate is obviously warming. Yet governments keep investing in pipelines.
Cigarettes are a useful case study.
In 1950, major studies linked smoking to lung cancer. Britain’s Royal College of Physicians warned the public in 1962. The US Surgeon General concluded in 1964 that smoking caused lung cancer and chronic bronchitis. In 1981, studies linked secondhand smoke to lung cancer. In 1986, the Surgeon General concluded that involuntary smoking caused disease, including lung cancer, in healthy…
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