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Pharmacology professor Sorell Schwartz of the Center for Environmental Health and Human Toxicology testified against the industry-funded Tobacco Institute [6], during the ongoing $280 billion federal lawsuit against big tobacco [7]. Schwartz said that, in the 1980s, the Institute's PR team, "who felt that we were not being cooperative enough," urged him and other supposedly independent researchers to "take a more advocative position" on issues like secondhand smoke [8]. But former Institute lawyer John Rupp (now with the Covington & Burling [9] law and lobbying firm) insisted [10] that "the industry sought out scientists and paid them to make an 'objective appraisal'" on secondhand smoke, to "dispel the 'extreme views' of some anti-smoking activists."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/6/diane-farsetta
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/ethics
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/science
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/tobacco
[5] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2004%2F10%2F3009%2Fwhos-blowing-smoke-where&linkname=Who%27s%20Blowing%20Smoke%20Where%3F
[6] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Tobacco_Institute
[7] http://www.prwatch.org/spin.php?date=September%202004#1095825601
[8] http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2000Q3/secondhand.html
[9] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Covington_%26_Burling
[10] http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6634262
[11] http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/27895/story.htm