The late Julian Bond, then NAACP chairman, was not going to have any conversation with us about this, Yerger remembered
Tobacco kills around 7 million people a year, and 80% of the worlds 1.1 billion smokers live in poor countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death is heaviest, far from the glamour of Formula One. The links between the tobacco giants and F1 are long established
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With traditional cigarettes, users typically cough uncontrollably on their first puffs
On the other side of the political aisle, the climate movement has taken direct inspiration from the anti-smoking movement, accusing the fossil fuel industry of using big tobacco tactics to cover up the harms of climate change and employing an aggressive litigation strategy when they know the prospects for legislation to ban fossil fuels are bleak