Tobacco Industry Cover-up Pt. 1

They called them the "ghost girls" – young women who glowed in the dark after painting watches with radium. The company told them it was safe. They knew it wasn't. When the women started dying, the cover-up began: forged reports, fake doctors, lies on death certificates. The cons ...  Show more

We’ve all heard the story of John Wilkes Booth firing a bullet in Ford’s Theater… but maybe you haven’t heard the theory he was a puppet, with his strings pulled by a much bigger organization. In the 1800s, a massively popular story circulated that the Jesuit Order orchestrated t ...  Show more

Les méfaits du tabac sur les poumons sont nombreux et mortels dans une importante proportion, puisque le tabagisme demeure, dans un pays comme la France, la première cause de mortalité évitable. Quelles sont les maladies des poumons liées au tabac ou aggravés par celui-ci ?  Dr A ...  Show more

This is not about smoking or lawsuits or lung cancer. This is about the cigarette itself, a truly unique and destructive invention.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Useful Links : The Tobacco Atlas - https://www.tobaccoatlas.org 🕰 Content Guide : (00:05) - Research Review (01:46) - The Tobacco Atlas (03:25) - Thank You For Smoking (04:11) - Nicotine Levels? (05:07) - Fun Fact: Tobacco kills more people per year than WWII 

We have always been a nation of drinkers — but now there are more daily users of cannabis than alcohol. Considering alcohol’s harms, maybe that’s a good thing. But some people worry that the legalization of cannabis has outpaced the research. (Part one of a <a href="https://fr ...