The Tobacco Conspiracy | HistoGate Chronicles: Hidden History | Episode 3

What happens when corporate greed wages war on scientific truth?

Discover the 1953 pact at the Plaza Hotel where tobacco rivals united to suppress the truth about cancer risks. Learn how they hired Public Relations expert John W. Hill to manufacture doubt, funding diversionary research while their own scientists confirmed nicotine was an addictive drug and cigarette tar was carcinogenic.

This episode reveals how the industry successfully spun national condemnation into a legal fortress, all while their own internal science was condemned and kept secret.

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📚 "The Secret History of Science - Volume 1" connects the dots, revealing the suppressed truths where knowledge became the industry's most dangerous secret. It delivers the receipts, documents, and damning confessions that were ultimately released in the online archive.

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