Big_Tobacco__Legality_Vs._Morality

Big Tobacco: Legality Vs. Morality For over half a century now the tobacco industry has gone to great lengths in concealing the negative effects associated with the use of nicotine and smoking cigarettes. According to TRUTH (anti-tobacco group), the industry spends about 11 billion dollars a year creating a gigantic “smoke” screen. Advertisement and promotions imply that cigarettes will make you independent and glamorous. They hint that instant popularity and good looks are a puff away. Anybody with a sound mind should know that all of this is false. The fact is that both tobacco industry officials and public relations firms have done a brilliant job in promoting their product, but that does not necessarily mean that they are morally right to do so. In his recently published book, A Question of Intent, former FDA commissioner Dr. David Kessler describes in fascinating detail how the FDA’s tobacco team uncovered piece after piece of incriminating evidence of big tobacco’s decades of lies. Kessler was able to obtain information from many current and former tobacco industry employees who acknowledged that nicotine was a deadly and addictive drug. In Ch. 30 of his book, Kessler tells us about William Dunn, a clinical psychologist who conducted product testing at tobacco, industry, kessler, companies, cancer, smoking, research, public, nicotine, give, former, fda, council, women, states, relations, product, one, know, information, even, cigarettes, cigarette, according, year, truth, though, think, regulate, process, probably, political, piece, phillip, out, np