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<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></b></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mashey 2012 fake experts</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/files/fake.pdf" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/files/fake.pdf</a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">0.7 Tobacco Playbook, climate anti-science</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robert Proctor summarized tobacco doubt-creation strategies documented</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">in his new book [PRO2012 pp.290-291], drawn from LTDL and</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">elsewhere. His handy list is excerpted here. Proctor notes that tobacco</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">paid for much real science that was irrelevant, for the sake of confusion.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That seems to happen only rarely for climate, where the more common</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">tactic tries to slip bad papers past unwary editors.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">(0) ‘One of the more common has been simply to assemble and reproduce</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">statements by authorities willing to deny the hazard. …</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1. Publicize statements from scholars skeptical of the hazard. Fund the research</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">of these scholars to entice them to testify in court or regulatory hearings.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2. Publicize examples of people living to a ripe old age despite decades of</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">smoking.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3. Raise questions about “anomalies that seem paradoxical. …</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">4. Redefine terms, Deny there is “tar” in cigarettes and insist on using words like</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">biological activity or hyperplasia rather than cancer or pre-cancer.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">5. Wrap yourself in the authority of science. Contrast the “rush to judgment”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">approach of anti-tobacco “fanatics” with the cautious “wait and see” attitude of</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">the industry. Insist on laboratory proof when faced with statistical evidence,…</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">6. State that the evidence linking tobacco and disease is merely “statistical” and</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">then deride statistics as an improper method for reasoning about causality.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Finance your own epidemiology and publish this in engineering journals if</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">medical journals won’t take it. Then hire experts to say such studies are</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“difficult to refute” and make sure such remarks get coverage in the popular</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">press.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7. Put a positive spin on uncomfortable facts. … body not as weak in the face of</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">carcinogenic onslaughts but strong in its capacity to resist such onslaughts.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">8. Construct graphs and charts in such a way as to make it look like cancer trends</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">are chaotic (“graphic agnotology”) …</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">9. Hire journalists to write industry-sympathetic articles in the popular press.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">10. Undermine the authority of health organizations such as the American Cancer</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Society, the Surgeon General, the American Heart Association, or the National</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Cancer Institute. Denigrate these as “advocacy” or “government”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">organizations aligned with an anti-tobacco “cause” or “movement” (with an</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“agenda,” etc.). Imply that such organizations are irremediably biased ….</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">11. Hire historians to rewrite history from the industry point of view and then use</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">such scholars as experts in court. …</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">12. Proclaim the smoking and health controversy to be “nothing new.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">13. Keep people smoking by reassuring them that the industry is doing everything</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">it can to make cigarettes as safe as possible.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">14. Always keep thinking of new ways to defend the industry.’</font></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">adapted:(color in orig)</font></b></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The following adapts Proctor’s list to climate anti-science:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(0) Petitions: OISM and Singer’s numerous petitions, Open Letters,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heartland Legislative Guide, Experts lists, NIPCC, ICCCs.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. Publicize statements from scholars skeptical of AGW. Epidemiology left more</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">room for real scholars to argue, but the few who deny AGW get quoted often.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. Publicize examples of people living to a ripe old age despite decades of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">smoking. Cherry-pick dates, places cooling, glaciers growing. Ignore others.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. Raise questions about “anomalies” that seem paradoxical. … Cold winters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4. Redefine terms, Deny there is “tar” in cigarettes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Claim AGW is not real, for any of numerous conflicting reasons.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5. Wrap yourself in the authority of science. Contrast the “rush to judgment”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">approach of climate “alarmists” or “warmists” with the cautious “wait and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see” attitude of “realists”. Insist on laboratory proof …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6. State that there is no evidence linking human activity and warming and try to</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">challenge basic physics of heat-trapping gases and conservation of energy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finance your own climate studies and publish this in Energy&Environment,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OpEds or blogs if Nature and Science won’t take it. Then hire experts to say</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">such studies are “difficult to refute” and make sure such remarks get coverage</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in the popular press, such as Wall Street Journal OpEds.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7. Put a positive spin on uncomfortable facts. … CO2 is good for plants, warming</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">is good for tourism, the Earth has been warmer long ago, people adapt, etc, etc.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8. Construct graphs and charts in such a way as to make it look like temperature</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">trends are chaotic (“graphic agnotology”) … §Y.1 on satellites .</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9. Hire journalists to write industry-sympathetic articles in the popular press. yes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10. Undermine the authority of science organizations such as the IPCC, NASA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GISS, UK Hadley Center, climate scientists in general. Denigrate these as</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“advocacy” or “government” organizations aligned with an anti-economy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“cause” or “movement” (with an “agenda,” etc.). Imply that such</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">organizations are irremediably biased or one-sided.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11. Hire any fakexpert to rewrite history from the industry point of view …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12. Proclaim “climate has changed before” or “warmer in MWP.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">13. Keep people using fossil fuels and avoiding even slight motion towards</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">efficiency or renewables by reassuring them that nothing (mercury, etc) is</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">harmful and air quality has improved anyway, so no more need be done.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">14. Keep thinking of new ways to defend status quo, incl. fossil industry</font></div></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></b></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/tobacco-book-golden-holocaust-robert-proctor/">https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/tobacco-book-golden-holocaust-robert-proctor/</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Golden Holocaust” is the Book Big Tobacco Doesn’t Want You to Read</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stanford historian Robert Proctor breaks down an industry that still kills more than 400,000 Americans a year.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mike Mechanic</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">MICHAEL MECHANIC</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Senior Editor</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Proctor shows off his collection of tobacco paraphernalia]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Amid the impressive collection of cactuses outside his modern two-story abode on the Stanford University campus, science historian Robert Proctor points to a few sad-looking tobacco plants that he’s growing just for the hell of it. “They’re not thriving here,” he tells me offhandedly.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">They obviously know their enemy. “I like to write about the history of the unseen and the untold,” he explains. “Of controversy, but also of evil. Of abuse of science. Of science used for horrific purposes.” Proctor’s wide-ranging scholarly interests include Charles Darwin, the politics of gemstones, and Nazi doctors. But his magnum opus is Golden Holocaust, a devastating new compendium of the tobacco industry’s sins that lays out in head-shaking detail how a handful of companies painstakingly designed, produced, and mass-marketed the most lethal product on the planet.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Knowing that Proctor’s book was coming, RJ Reynolds subpoenaed his unfinished manuscript in 2009. Though his lawyers beat back the attempt, it cost him $50,000, not to mention days of depositions</b>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“They didn’t want this book to come out,” says Louis Kyriakoudes, an associate professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and one of just three historians, including Proctor, who have testified against the tobacco industry in court. (More than 70 of their historian colleagues have quietly collected millions testifying and consulting on the industry’s behalf.) “I suspect that if they were successful subpoenaing the work in progress, they could try to discredit it and diminish its impact,” says Kyriakoudes.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“You can put things in cigarettes you can’t put in dog food,” Proctor says.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">By his own estimate, Proctor spent a decade poring over more than 100,000 tobacco industry documents unearthing details such as a primer on how to reach “young starters” and a 1970 Lorillard memo suggesting that “Negroes” smoke menthols to “mask” their “real/mythical odor</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.” The 57-year-old prof is a walking encyclopedia of tobacco arcana, apt to mention things like “beaver,” a rodent anal secretion sometimes added to cigarettes, perhaps to enhance “pack aroma.” Or that as much as 90 percent of America’s licorice supply is used as a cigarette sweetener. (Honey, chocolate, and sugar are also employed to make cigarette smoke more inhalable—and thus more addictive.) Or that around 4 percent of a cigarette’s weight is made up of humectants like propylene glycol—basically antifreeze.* “You can put things in cigarettes you can’t put in dog food,” Proctor says.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Yucky Strikes</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">If nicotine wasn’t bad enough: <b>10 weird cigarette ingredients.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Beeswax</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Butter</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Caffeine</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chocolate</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Maple Syrup</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Patchouli</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pine Oil</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Prune Juice</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rum</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Urea</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Even though tobacco companies have assumed a lower profile since the massive lawsuits of the ’90s, Proctor’s work shows that their influence has not waned. Since 2008 they have spent more than $87 million on lobbying and have doled out more than $7 million to members of Congress</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The results are obvious: In 2009, the industry convinced Congress to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from ordering the removal of nicotine or banning cigarettes entirely. When lawmakers outlawed kid-friendly tobacco flavorings such as grape, vanilla, and strawberry in the same year, they didn’t touch menthol, which cigarette makers have long used for its cooling, anesthetic effects. Congress passed a law in 1993 requiring all Navy ships to sell tobacco, directly contradicting the goal of a “smoke-free Navy” by 2000. Smoking was eventually banned in submarines only—in 2010.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It’s easy to see why plaintiff lawyers have hired Proctor as an expert witness in dozens of cases—and why tobacco lawyers keep close tabs on him, even attending his talks incognito. He recounts confronting one mole who showed up at a conference cluelessly wearing “leather pants and shirt, all slit, the way an undergraduate might look if you were trying to copy what an undergraduate looks like.” The same law firm that went after Proctor’s book persuaded a Florida judge to let it troll his private emails in hopes of unearthing messages that would disqualify him as an expert witness. In the end, the judge didn’t buy it; Proctor had simply asked another historian whether the grad students hired by her industry-funded colleague knew who they were working for.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>One of the most pervasive myths about smoking is that it’s history: “It’s still two jumbo jets crashing every day,” Proctor says.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One of the most pervasive myths about smoking, Proctor says, is that it’s history. “Americans still smoke 350 billion cigarettes a year. It’s still the leading cause of death. It still kills over 400,000 Americans per year. It’s still two jumbo jets crashing every day.” The six trillion cigarettes smoked annually around the world “are enough to go from the earth to the sun and back with enough left over for several round trips to Mars.” For every $10,000 in profits the industry earns, he calculates, another smoker dies.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Proctor recalls his recent courtroom examination by lawyers from Lorillard, whose brands include Newport, the nation’s top-selling menthol, and Kent, whose Micronite filters were once made with<b> asbestos.</b> “They said, ‘You want Lorillard to go out of business, don’t you?’ I said, ‘No, I just want them to make a product that doesn’t kill millions of people.'”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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