Cigarette Industry Disinformation Tactics and Global Impact

Explore the origins and global impact of cigarette disinformation in this 33-minute conference talk from the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. Delve into how the cigarette industry became a major source of academic corruption by funding distraction research to deflect attention from smoking hazards. Discover how this strategy resulted in ten Nobel prizes and helped forge other forms of global denialism. Examine the complex nature of cigarette skepticism and its role in corrupting science through the promotion of alternative causation theories. Gain insights into the deadly impact of cigarettes on human civilization and the industry's sophisticated disinformation tactics that continue to influence public health debates today.

Cigarette makers pioneered many of our black arts of disinformation, including the funding of...