The Tobacco Conspiracy
A History of Tobacco Industry Lies and Fraud. From America in 1953 to Africa today, the debate between personal responsibility and corporate greed is clearly and firmly charted.
From scientific deception to working with organized crime, tobacco companies reveal their hidden agendas more clearly than ever in this theatrical documentary.
More than three years of global research has allowed Nadia Collot to decipher the attitudes of an industry that, despite numerous prevention campaigns, is expanding its influence at the expense of public health. Three areas of industry behavior were examined:
1. Scientific subversion: Evidence of manipulating scientific evidence and buying scientists to fuel debate about health issues related to smoking, but much more today related to environmental tobacco smoke.
2. Ideological subversion: Whether it’s through clever and disguised product placement on screen or on TV, creating its own biased health messages, implementing subtle and sophisticated marketing tactics, or political lobbying tactics, the tobacco industry does everything it can to get its way. Say it never will.
3. Economic Strategy: Smuggling is one of the ways the industry chooses to organize its international growth in order to develop as quickly as possible, penetrate countries with closed markets, and better reach the young and poor.
