The tobacco industry denied advertising’s effect while spending billions on it

Evidence

The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars annually glamorizing smoking in advertisements targeting youth, but argued contradictorily that advertisements have no effect. “Some young people use licit products which are advertised, and some use illicit substances which are not. Marijuana, for example, another substance which I know is of concern to you, is widely used despite the fact that it has never been advertised” (Kloepfer, 1985). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1659

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The tobacco industry invented science denial as public-relations strategy — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 63