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In 2007, Mark Hoofnagle suggested on his Science Blog Denialism that denialists across a range of topics such as climate change, evolution, & HIV/AIDS all employed the same rhetorical tactics to sow confusion. The five general tactics were conspiracy, selectivity (cherry-picking), fake experts, impossible expectations (also known as moving goalposts), and general fallacies of logic.

GENEVA: The Swiss voted on Sunday to tighten their notoriously lax tobacco laws by banning virtually all advertising of the hazardous products.Nearly 57% of voters and 16 of Switzerlands 26 cantons...

Nearly 57 percent of voters and 16 of 26 cantons approve the tightening of the country’s notoriously lax tobacco laws.

Final results showed that nearly 57 per cent of voters and 16 of Switzerlands 26 cantons backed the near-total tobacco advertising ban.

The Swiss voted on Sunday to tighten their notoriously lax tobacco laws by banning virtually all advertising of the hazardous products. Nearly 57 percent of voters and 16 of Switzerland's 26 cantons backed the near-total tobacco advertising ban, final results showed. &quot&#x3B;We&#x20...

Voters will decide Sunday on whether to prohibit the ads in places where they can be seen by children under 18.