Industry shifted blame to workers’ own smoking to exonerate a carcinogen

Evidence

Industry personnel also used the adverse effects of smoking on workers’ health to exonerate vinyl chloride. They claimed that smoking, rather than vinyl chloride, caused workers’ health problems. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1781

Categorization

• XREF: A textbook instance of blame displacement toward the victim, the mechanism Bandura uses to explain how publics accept harmful policy — extends the reader’s rationalization-of-harm argument.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1781