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In fact, as has been well documented, the industry spent decades pushing misleading and deceptive science and advertisements to claim nicotine wasn’t addictive, and that there wasn’t a risk of cancer from smoking cigarettes or from being exposed to second-hand smoke. This is despite the industry knowing its products caused cancer since the 1950s.
The tobacco industry’s tactics became known as the “tobacco playbook” — a strategy best captured in one industry
memo from 1969 that has become infamous for stating, “Doubt is our product.”
“Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general product. It is also the means of establishing a controversy,” the memo reads.
If this strategy sounds familiar, it’s because the fossil fuel industry put it into use a couple decades later.
As investigations by
InsideClimate News and the
Los Angeles Times revealed in 2015, ExxonMobil knew for decades about the damaging impact of burning fossil fuels — specifically, that its product would cause greenhouse gas emissions to rise and with it, global temperatures.
In fact, according to documents uncovered by
DeSmogBlog, the oil giant knew as far back as the late 1970s that “there is no doubt” increasing the use of fossil fuels would increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
At the same time, Exxon, along with other fossil fuel giants like Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, have spent millions of dollars in their efforts to promote climate science denial to the general public and to policymakers.
https://thinkprogress.org/big-tobacco-climate-change-history-b1f88057f2cd/
