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BIOBASH Barcelona, Tuesday 2nd December, Alma Hotel at Mallorca and Pau Claris, cash bar. Come and enjoy with fellow entrepreneurs. View in LinkedIn

TOBACCO IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. "Cigarettes are the only consumer product which when used as intended will kill half of its long term customers ... One billion deaths and nearly 80% of those deaths will take place in the developing world. That's were Big Tobacco is headed in an effort to make up for lost revenue in the US and Europe." http://lnkd.in/du4TJ3X View in LinkedIn

END OF AN ERA IN US. "Now virtually all tobacco advertising is to be banned. Magazine pages will be devoid of unexplained pieces of slashed purple silk, billboards in busy streets are to shed their images of vast open stretches of Americana." http://lnkd.in/dEaC5iq View in LinkedIn

1 BILLION TOBACCO DEATHS IN 20TH CENTURY. "1.3 billion smokers worldwide in 2003, and that number is expected to increase to 1.7 billion by 2020." Of 7.1 billion population in 2020, this is one in five humans smoking." http://lnkd.in/dazJ8n2 View in LinkedIn

SOW DOUBT FIRST. "The most important story is that which casts doubt in the cause and effect theory of disease and smoking ... Controversy! Contradiction! Other factors! Unknowns!" http://lnkd.in/dj9V_RB View in LinkedIn

1 BILLION TOBACCO DEATHS IN 20TH CENTURY. "1.3 billion smokers worldwide in 2003, and that number is expected to increase to 1.7 billion by 2020." Of 7.1 billion population in 2020, this is one in five humans smoking. (Peto R, Lopez AD. Future worldwide health effects of current smoking patterns." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2040350/ View in LinkedIn

NUMBER ONE JOB OF TOBACCO INDUSTRY. "We have one essential job -- which can be simply said: stop public panic ... There is only one problem -- confidence, and how to establish it, public assurance and how to create it." http://lnkd.in/dj9V_RB View in LinkedIn

HISTORIC PUBLIC HEALTH CATASTROPHY. "The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that tobacco caused ... 100 million deaths over the course of the 20th century." Compared to the Spanish Flu (50-100 million dead), the Black Death (20 million dead), and Smallpox (300 million dead), this is the largest public health catastrophe in recent history. " http://lnkd.in/dRNWjzP View in LinkedIn

WHAT THEY KNEW AND WHEN, in the words of the tobacco industry. A walk through the quoted record by decade of the state of knowledge and the industry responses. A litany of dirty tricks, denials, bullying, and the abdication of any vestige of ethical behavior. http://lnkd.in/dj9V_RB View in LinkedIn

WHEN WAS THE NEGATIVE DATA IN TOBACCO CLEAR? "Prior to World War I, lung cancer was considered to be a rare disease ... With the postwar rise in popularity of cigarette smoking, however, came an epidemic of lung cancer. In the 1930s German scientists showed that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer." http://lnkd.in/dRNWjzP View in LinkedIn