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The tobacco industry is not a ‘normal’ business, so let us stop treating it that way: invited commentary
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  1. Thomas J Glynn
  1. Correspondence to Dr Thomas J Glynn, American Cancer Society 555 11th Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20004, USA; tom.glynn{at}cancer.org

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The global tobacco industry kills six million people every year. It does this in a deliberate, systematic manner, complete with business plans, lobbying, political contributions and favours, and cash bonuses to its executives who kill the most people by successfully selling them their deadly cigarettes and other tobacco products.

Six million people. Every year. When one repeats those phrases, slowly and aloud—six million people, every year—it seems astounding that Malone et al,1 in this issue of Tobacco Control, need, at this …

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