How Big Tobacco invented Donald Trump and Brexit (and what to do about it)

[lloydcogliandro]

@gracchus

Sometimes I think there was a tobacco industry meeting in mid-century America where the executives said “sure, our product kills millions of people a year, but if we’re going to beat out munitions as the most evil industry ever we really have to step things up and set the standard for doing evil in other industries.”

If you haven’t seen it already, check out “Thank You For Smoking”. Lobbyists for the tobacco, alcohol, and firearm industries refer to themselves as the Merchants Of Death at their weekly dinner gatherings.