From: The Tobacco Files: What Big Tobacco Hid

Would you choose to know a dangerous truth, or live in comfortable denial?

Millions of smokers preferred to believe the industry's reassuring ads rather than face the scary truth about cancer. Facing hard truths is difficult but essential for survival.

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Identify one uncomfortable truth in your own life that you have been avoiding.

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Tobacco companies privately agreed that cigarettes caused cancer by the mid-1950s.

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The tobacco industry secretly paid Hollywood to place cigarettes in movies and television.

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Tobacco executives lied under oath to Congress about the addictiveness of nicotine.

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The Tobacco Files: What Big Tobacco Hid

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