I just finished a well researched and referenced book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway ‘Merchants of Doubt’ that describe the way a very small number of people managed to convince a large percentage of the US that tobacco smoke does not cause cancer.  If this was before you were borne you may not think this was possible.  Of course smoking causes cancer.  But at the time it wasn’t a slam dunk.  Back in the 60’s the tobacco industry could see the future coming at them and decide to get out ahead of the law suits that they expected to cut into there profits.  What they did was to start up an...…I just finished a well researched and referenced book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway ‘Merchants of Doubt’ that describe the way a very small number of people managed to convince a large percentage of the US that tobacco smoke does not cause cancer.  If this was before you were borne you may not think this was possible.  Of course smoking causes cancer.  But at the time it wasn’t a slam dunk.  Back in the 60’s the tobacco industry could see the future coming at them and decide to get out ahead of the law suits that they expected to cut into there profits.  What they did was to start up an...WW…