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Australia: sudden death in sydney
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Are tobacco control advocates a sentimental lot, prone to overlooking the fact that, as tobacco industry apologists never tire of pointing out, "We all die eventually"? Or is it perhaps a case of those able to do Big Tobaccos dirty work being either a self selecting bunch of tough guys, or a group with a knack for denial about the medical consequences of their products, or both? Whatever accounts for the differences in the way the two sides view tobacco induced disease, an industry document that surfaced recently shed an interesting light on how a tobacco industry executive viewed a sudden death almost certainly aided by the free cigarettes that were routinely given to industry employees until comparatively recently.
In February 1972, almost exactly 10 years after the worlds first expert review of the scientific evidence about the effects of smoking on health was published by the Royal College of
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