did these politicians suffer any discredit as a result?
[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_Billy_Bush_re...
[3] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/sally-yates-pr...
Apparently not...
>This is not to say that smoking is good for you.... news flash: smoking is not good for you. If you are reading this article through the blue haze of cigarette smoke you should quit.
> We will hear about how this phalanx of government elates has suddenly grown a conscience after decades of subsidizing the product which, we are now told, "kills millions of Americans each year".
> Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill. In fact, 2 out of every three smokers does not die from a smoking related illness and 9 out of ten smokers do not contract lung cancer.
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...
Largely in the US; the very existence of anthropogenic global warming is not a partisan issue in most of the world.
> I wonder what would have happened to the Ozone Hole if it too got politicized at the time
It did; there are people who deny it _to this day_, amazingly.
> or the link between smoking and cancer
It did; tobacco companies lobbied and continue to lobby mightily, and politicians were arguing that tobacco wasn't unsafe for a long time.