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When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

Merchants of Doubt has been praised—and attacked—around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades.

Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police outside a store in Minneapolis known as "the best place to buy menthols".

"Anti-Smoking Forces Give Big Tobacco a Fight in Indonesia" is from the April 30, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Jon Emont and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

A young boy’s quest for adventure takes an unexpected turn in this 1922 Newbery-winning tale. After facing daily scoldings and struggles, he escapes into a tobacco-fueled dream world where anything seems possible. A whimsical and curious mix of fantasy and reality.

The tobacco industry has spent decades honing its deadly strategies to maximise its profits. Despite the well-known dangers of tobacco there are still eight million tobacco-related deaths each year.Why, decades after it’s deceptions were uncovered, is this industry still so powerful and profitable?This podcast, based on ground-breaking research by the Tobacco Control Research Group, exposes the tactics of the tobacco industry. Experts from the University of Bath and other organisations consider the progress that has been made in countering this deadly industry and what still needs to be ...

"You’ll inhale this tell-all book about the tobacco industry and never look at a No Smoking sign the same way again!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter Mad Men meets Bad Blood in this addictive, behind-the-scenes globe-trotting narrative of moral ambiguity, law, public policy, and big tobacco...

This is a podcast produced by the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Knowledge Hub for Articles 17 and 18, which is based in Brazil, in the Center for Studies on Tobacco and Health from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (CETAB/Fiocruz). The information and views set out on this podcast are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), the Parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products (the Protocol), or the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC and its Protocols.

"Tobacco Industry Works to Block Rules on E-Cigarettes" is from the September 02, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Eric Lipton and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"Mets and Yankees Brace for a Future without Smokeless Tobacco" is from the March 22, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Tim Rohan and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"In NFL, Deeply Flawed Concussion Research and Ties to Big Tobacco" is from the March 24, 2016, Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Alan Schwarz, Walt Bogdanich and Jacqueline Williams and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Family of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn Sues Tobacco Industry over His Death" is from the May 23, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Tyler Kepner and narrated by Kristi Burns.