It might seem like tobacco and vape companies are putting a lot of energy into helping people during the pandemic. But is offering home delivery, handing out masks, or providing ventilators enough to overshadow the fact that their products damage and weaken the lungs, making people more vulnerable to illness? Roy Wood Jr. investigates.
Courtesy: Truth Initiative

Robert Proctor was the first historian to testify against Big Tobacco. Now, he's targeting other major industries that use misinformation to sell their harmful products.

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For decades, the tobacco industry has deliberately employed strategic, aggressive and well-resourced tactics to attract youth to tobacco and nicotine products. Internal industry documents reveal in-depth research and calculated approaches designed to attract a new generation of tobacco users, from product design to marketing campaigns aimed at replacing the millions of people who die each year from tobacco-attributable diseases with new consumers – youth.

Courtesy: World Health Organization