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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Sun Jul 12, 2015, 09:03 PM Jul 2015

Shillers for killers

If you want an unvarnished, raw peek at the pig trough of corruption and sleaze, it’s all there in the 88 million-plus pages of once-secret tobacco industry documents, online and searchable in the University of California at San Francisco’s online tobacco library.

In my last article, I gave some background on both the tobacco industry’s deadly conspiracy against humanity, and on UCSF’s new 3.0 version of its online searchable tobacco documents library.

Now it’s time to look at some of the accessories to the greatest crime in human history: 100 million people killed last century, one billion expected to die this century from smoking. Every one of those deaths preventable.

To rack up this many human kills for so many tens of billions of dollars in profits over so many decades and not wind up in prison, the tobacco industry has had to pay off an incredible number of people and institutions over the years.

As the documents (some embedded below) show, many of those people were paid under the table, to better confuse, deceive, and continue plundering the public. Those covert tobacco shills are easily the worst and most offensive, because they commit fraud on a public that trusts them.

https://pando.com/2015/07/07/shillers-killers/

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Shillers for killers (Original Post) Blue_Tires Jul 2015 OP
Looks intriguing and sleazy swilton Jul 2015 #1
 

swilton

(5,069 posts)
1. Looks intriguing and sleazy
Sun Jul 12, 2015, 09:22 PM
Jul 2015

Certainly the same thing is happening with climate denial although with graver consequences...

Unfortunately, I can't read the full article w/o becoming a Pando member.

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