eric cocora. oh, the oil industry strategy of sewing doubt. has it been done before? i believe nicotine is not addictive. yes, mr. johnson. our congressman cigarettes and nicotine clearly do not meet the classic definitions of addiction. there is no or talk lot, we'll take that of know in the mid 19 hundreds scientists realized that smoking was dangerous. the tobacco industry made every effort to counteract the new knowledge, and internal documents says, doubt is our product. since it's the best means of competing with the body of fact that exists in the minds of the general public. the industry succeeded in delaying regulation of tobacco for decades. that successful campaign was now copied by climate skeptics. when science established the danger of smoking, tobacco companies published ads against it, oil companies in the same after james hanson's presentation. so the idea is to make it seem that we don't really know for sure if this is a palm, because if we don't know, then it would be premature to allow the government to say regulate tobacco. and then the same argum