A harmful industry can appropriate patriotic symbolism to legitimize itself

Evidence

In a battle of symbols, Philip Morris launched a joint controversial project with the National Archives in a heavily advertised national tour to com-memorate the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights (Pool, 1991). The tour opened with a patriotic parade, armored vehicles, and an honor guard of retired marines protecting an original copy of the Bill of Rights. Antismoking advocates were outraged that Philip Morris was associating the tobacco industry with patriotism and the “freedom” to smoke. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1660

Categorization

• CANDY: Philip Morris associating cigarettes with the Bill of Rights via an armored-vehicle parade is a fun surprising fact.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1660