Throat doctors manipulated by Big Tobacco

For half a century beginning in the 1920s, tobacco companies continued a campaign to manipulate throat doctors – primarily with money – into helping calm the public’s growing fears that smoking might not be good for you.

Most shocking about this was that many of the most well-respected leaders in the field of otolaryngology got on board with this campaign – testifying before Congress, recommending certain brands of cigarettees to their patients – into the 1970s when the scientific evidence pointing to the hazards of smoking had become overwhelming.

via scopeblog.stanford.edu