Big Tobacco | The New Frontier | 5
American Scandal
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4.5 • 19.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It's been over 20 years since a major settlement forced the tobacco industry to reform—and pay billions of dollars for its mistakes. Still, despite a sea change in the public’s attitude toward smoking, the tobacco industry remains strong. And it continues to win over new customers. Annice Kim, a public health expert, joins Lindsay to discuss the explosion in e-cigarettes’ popularity, and the ways in which companies now use social media to sell these products.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to American Scandal add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:24.0 | From Wondry, I'm Lindsay Graham and this is American Scandal. |
| 0:31.0 | Today we wrap up our series on Big Tobacco and the whistleblowers and lawyers who fought to hold the industry accountable. |
| 0:54.0 | For decades, the tobacco industry lied to the public about the harms of smoking. Millions of Americans became more and more popular. |
| 1:00.0 | They were addicted to cigarettes and millions died as a result of this dangerous habit. |
| 1:04.0 | Even today, despite a sea change in the country's attitude towards cigarettes, hundreds of thousands of Americans die every year from smoking. |
| 1:11.0 | And over 16 million Americans have a disease that's caused by smoking. |
| 1:16.0 | How has the tobacco industry managed to get so many people hooked on such a dangerous product? |
| 1:21.0 | And how have they gotten away with it for so long? |
| 1:24.0 | Today I'm joined by Anise Kim, a public health expert who's currently studying the ways in which tobacco and e-cigarette companies use social media to sell their products. |
| 1:32.0 | Kim is a senior scientist at RTI International Center for Health Policy Science and Tobacco Research. |
| 1:38.0 | In her work, she's found that the industry is drawing from an old playbook in order to get a new generation hooked on nicotine. |
| 1:44.0 | Here's our conversation. |
| 1:55.0 | In a four-part series, The Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Recker's island for three years without trial. |
| 2:07.0 | This is a story about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system. |
| 2:11.0 | Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:15.0 | Since his death in 2009, the world has struggled with how Michael Jackson should be remembered as the King of Pop or as a monster. |
| 2:23.0 | I'm Leon Nefak. My new podcast Think Twice, Michael Jackson, offers a new perspective on the art and the artist. |
| 2:30.0 | Follow Think Twice, Michael Jackson, on Audible or the Amazon Music App. |
| 2:44.0 | Anise Kim, welcome to American Scandal. |
| 2:47.0 | Thanks, Lindsay. Happy to be here. |
| 2:49.0 | So Tobacco has been with Americans since well before the nation's founding. The growing, processing, selling of Tobacco became a huge industry with deep pockets and a ferocious reputation for never losing a fight in court. |
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