The tabacco industry lied for many years about the dangers of smoking (and I smoke, so I'm not some bleeding heart liberal here). It may be black and white today, but many believed the tabacco industry earlier in the century.
The original statement was the tobacco industry kills people. This is a hard position to argue in the present tense. If the statement was that the tobacco industry has killed people, then this might be a valid response.
However, I have very little symphathy for the arguement that people didn't know because the tobacco industry told them differently. As a smoker, you are aware that you don't have to smoke all that heavily for all that long before you realize that you run out of breath easier, cough more often, and hack up brown/black shit. Even though you may not realize that until AFTER you start smoking, certainly people told other people about their experiences and non-smokers could easily notice smokers developing nasty coughs.
Really, there were plenty of people who knew or should have known that smoking was bad for your health well before there was a surgeon general's warning on the pack.
Although I'm not 100% thrilled with their client, I think it's the same thing ("compute against cancer"). Parabon is one of those "pay for spare cycles" wanna-bes that currently award prizes, but don't pay cash.
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The original statement was the tobacco industry kills people. This is a hard position to argue in the present tense. If the statement was that the tobacco industry has killed people, then this might be a valid response.
However, I have very little symphathy for the arguement that people didn't know because the tobacco industry told them differently. As a smoker, you are aware that you don't have to smoke all that heavily for all that long before you realize that you run out of breath easier, cough more often, and hack up brown/black shit. Even though you may not realize that until AFTER you start smoking, certainly people told other people about their experiences and non-smokers could easily notice smokers developing nasty coughs.
Really, there were plenty of people who knew or should have known that smoking was bad for your health well before there was a surgeon general's warning on the pack.
Although I'm not 100% thrilled with their client, I think it's the same thing ("compute against cancer"). Parabon is one of those "pay for spare cycles" wanna-bes that currently award prizes, but don't pay cash.