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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by justonepost on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @05:15PM (#9848163)
It's not just shame, this is literally evil. Cigarettes don't merely kill people, they addict them as well. And what's worse, is the US Chamber of Commerce has decades of extremely conclusive research on this matter. It's one thing to kill someone accidentally, but to take a gun and point it for power and profit...
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Re:CVS Health Quits U.S. Chamber Over Stance on Smoking by wpietri on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:19AM (#9849940)
Anybody curious about the topic should check out the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library:

https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

I once happened to meet a researcher who spent some time with the data set and they had all sorts of horrific stories about how consciously evil the cigarette companies were. The one that sticks with me is the people planning marketing campaigns for mentally handicapped adults. I had no words. I still don't, really.

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