The Weak, Unconvincing
Case Against Vaping
Has our collective concern over teen vaping led us to ignore the lives of millions and millions of smokers?
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In April 1994, the heads of
the biggest tobacco companies testified before Congress that cigarettes weren’t addictive. A month later, across
the country, a box marked “confidential” arrived for Dr. Stanton Glantz, a
longtime foe of Big Tobacco and a professor of medicine at the University of
California San Francisco. The sender signed his name “Mr. Butts,” an
allusion to a
Doonesbury character. When Glantz opened the
package, he found thousands of internal documents from British American Tobacco
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