• johnny_deadeyes@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    Believe if it was only now that the revelation that cigarettes cause cancer was in progress, there would be a large, confident contingent of folks swearing they’re actually great for you led by the likes of RFK Jr.

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      1 month ago

      The tobacco companies funded a small army of shills who said exactly that, publishing fraudulent papers and feeding the media’s phony simplistic need for “balance.”