Tobacco Industry Manipulation of Epidemiological Studies

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to the connections between smoking and various ailments that have been commissioned or funded by the tobacco industry are notorious for their failure to keep up with decent scientific standards and rigor. This leads to an ambivalent perception of the case by many people, while there is no rationale for it. This paper will focus on the tactics used by the tobacco industry to deny the link between deterioration of health and environmental smoking. In particular, it will address the question of how epidemiological studies were discredited whilst 'alternative' studies were buttressed. Finally, this paper will contextualize those findings and overview the possible venues for possible changes in the near future.

Smoking is now one of the major causes of deaths in many countries all over the globe. Moreover, recent studies (as well as some older ones), have found that not only first- hand smoke is linked to various health problems, such as lung cancer, heart disease etc. Indeed, some ...

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used to be many campaigns funded by the tobacco industry denying the negative effects of smoking and secondhand smoke on personal health. This is largely due to the fact that the tobacco industry has long waged campaigns whose aim was to diminish various studies which had been conducted to prove the harm of smoking. The change was largely spurred by the rising number of court cases brought by former smokers who had developed health problems, notably lung cancer, and who accused the tobacco companies of hiding the information about the link between smoking and those health problems. However, the tobacco industries continue to play an important role in trying to question the veracity and ...

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