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THE TOBACCO ATLAS BY WHO. "This book illustrates, in an accessible and creative format, how tobacco is not just a simple health issue, but involves economics, big business, politics, trade, litigation, deceit and crimes such as smuggling." Extremely sobering pictorial data. http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/tobacco_atlas/en/ View in LinkedIn

GIRDED WITH THE BAG OF TRICKS, it is instructive to look at the oldest, biggest, nastiest trickster of all: Big Tobacco. The achievements of these giant corporations in crafting the public perception and acceptance of a toxic product is the crowning glory of spin, undue influence, and unbridled private power. It is also being imitated by other entities including Big Food. View in LinkedIn

ADDITIONAL DIRTY TRICKS. Generalizations; double speak; euphemisms; assertions; the common man; transference; repetition; labelling; ignoring proof; destroying proof; creating proof; lies and omissions. http://lnkd.in/dkCqJ8Y View in LinkedIn

ADDITIONAL TRICKS OF SPIN. Half truths; dumbing down the news; creating diversions; lying about numbers; false logic; how dare you; mud-slinging; appeal to false authority; fear-mongering; bandwagons; false choices; lesser of two evils. http://lnkd.in/dkCqJ8Y View in LinkedIn

TECHNIQUES OF SPIN, a handy guide to many of the tricks of the trade that are plied with such skill and regularity we become blind to them. Remember, naming something is a way to make it real. http://lnkd.in/dkCqJ8Y View in LinkedIn

FAKE PRECISION. "This fallacy occurs when an argument treats information as more precise than it really is. This happens when imprecise information contained in the premisses must be taken as precise in order to adequately support the conclusion." http://lnkd.in/dY6ufkp View in LinkedIn

WEAK ANALOGY. "Analogies are neither true nor false, instead they come in degrees from near identity to extreme dissimilarity." Example: "Banning automobiles would be economically and socially disruptive in a way that banning a single pesticide would not." http://www.fallacyfiles.org/wanalogy.html View in LinkedIn

SPECIAL PLEADING. "People often attempt to apply a "double standard", which makes an exception to the rule for themselves—or people like them—but applies it to others." http://lnkd.in/d_pzVEd View in LinkedIn

CARD STACKING. "A one-sided case presents only evidence favoring its conclusion, and ignores or downplays the evidence against it." http://www.fallacyfiles.org/inforfal.html View in LinkedIn

NON CAUSA PRO CAUSA. "Inferring that something is the cause of something else when it isn't." http://www.fallacyfiles.org/noncause.html View in LinkedIn