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Cigarette Firm Destroyed Info From Studies

Posted by admin on Thursday, 15 October, 2009

Imperial Tobacco Canada destroyed up to 60 early studies that linked cigarettes to addiction and carcinogens, according to a review published Wednesday in the online Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The internal studies, done from 1967 to 1984, were destroyed in 1992 on orders from head office at British American Tobacco in the United Kingdom to avoid “exposing the company to liability or embarrassment,” the authors of the review say.
The studies were later uncovered in British American Tobacco files, which began to [...]

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