Tobacco profitability depends on recruiting teen smokers.

Evidence

To remain profitable, the industry must recruit new people to take up smoking. If youngsters do not start smoking in their teens, they are unlikely to start later in life (Lynch & Bonnie, 1994). Evidence that the industry was tracking teenage smoking was dismissed as “anomalies” (Dedman, 1998). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1623

Categorization

• SHARE: The dismissal of tracking evidence as ‘anomalies’ exemplifies euphemistic dismissal worth sharing with someone interested in industry denial tactics.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1623