re: #370 Cineaste

I don’t know. Why did the tobacco companies support all that medical research that said cigarettes weren’t linked to cancer.

This is a canard that deserves little respect. Tobacco is a product that can profit from marketing to as many individuals and groups of individuals as possible; the younger the better. In truth it is a marketing of an addictive drug, and for full disclosure I am a recent quitter.

This has no relevance to global warming and the interests of providers of energy that every last one of us needs.

The issue is how we make use of that energy; not to mention that you haven’t answered my question. What specific benefit would Exxon gain from supporting the idiots of the day?