Indeed - and a very good reason to take them with a pinch of salt too. Their 'voice of Faux news' position is enough for me to look at them with suspicion. Any campaign group 'influenced' by businesses is automatically suspect. I assume the oil and industrial chemical companies will probably have funded this 'Big Climate change lie' campaign. More about them and 'smoking is not bad for your health':nmc wrote:The Heartland Institute was, before it jumped on the there-is-no-such-thing-as-climate-change bandwagon, advocating the opinion that smoking had few, if any, adverse health effects and called it 'The Big Lie'.
"Heartland has gone to great lengths to argue that its attacks on public health or climate science are not motivated by the vast amounts of funding it receives from industry groups. But again, the tobacco wars are an instructive reminder of Heartland's agenda.
After litigation forced the disclosure of thousands of tobacco company documents, many Heartland letters to companies such as Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds were exposed to the public.
"Heartland does many things that benefit Philip Morris' bottom line," Bast once wrote to Roy Marden, the Manager of Industry Affairs for Philip Morris Management in a letter seeking $35,000 in contributions for Heartland from the tobacco company.
His evidence? A litany of reports, opinion pieces, and new articles placed by Heartland in defense of the tobacco industry and in opposition to those seeking to highlight the health risks associated with smoking."
Put that in your pipe and smoke it as we say..............
