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Big Tobacco 2.0: Oil Company Ills and Social Media Spills

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Nearly 30 years ago, the CEO’s from America’s seven big tobacco firms denied under oath that they considered nicotine to be addictive. It was a gold medal winning “smoking gun” moment. The claim was so terminally at odds with reality that millions of damning documents were exposed, public opinion turned, and the Republican Party abandoned its support (e…

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