Before COVID, smokers (and a small but vocal collection of scientists and researchers) had for years been warning that the incestuous relationship between big pharma, the FDA, the media, and politicians is not only the real reason behind smoking bans, but that precedents established via smoking bans would lead to future disaster. They were ignored, and the so-called “dangers” of secondhand smoke, despite being a lie, was falsely used to shame them into silence.
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