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February 15, 2024
Magazine
Duncan Murrell
Resolved: The U.S. Should Stop Growing Tobacco
It kills millions, it has no productive use, and even its farmers see the end coming. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
November 14, 2022
Jan Dutkiewicz
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Spencer Roberts
How the Meat Industry Undermines Effective Climate Policy
Borrowing a page from the fossil fuel industry’s playbook, meat’s “merchants of doubt” are funding questionable research and lobbying to keep meat reduction off the table.
April 29, 2022
Timothy Noah
Don’t Let the Tobacco Industry Use George Floyd to Kill a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus agree that the ban is a great move. So why is Al Sharpton taking the side of R.J. Reynolds?
May 25, 2021
Alex Norcia
The Weak, Unconvincing Case Against Vaping
Has our collective concern over teen vaping led us to ignore the lives of millions and millions of smokers?
September 25, 2019
Scott W. Stern
How War Made the Cigarette
A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.
November 16, 2018
Emily Atkin
Is It Racist to Ban Menthol Cigarettes—or Not To?
The FDA's new proposal stirs up an old, complicated debate.
April 30, 2014
Sally Satel
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Brad Rodu
Everyone Is Asking the Wrong Questions About E-Cigarettes
April 25, 2014
Darshak Sanghavi
Do E-Cigs Help People Quit Smoking—Or Make Them Start?
February 5, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Why CVS Is Halting Tobacco Sales, in Three Charts
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