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Tobacco industry documents reveal that Philip Morris executives conceived of the " Whitecoat Project " in the 1980s as a response to emerging scientific data on the harmfulness of second-hand smoke.
The goal of the Whitecoat Project, as conceived by Philip Morris and other tobacco companies, was to use ostensibly independent " scientific consultants " to spread doubt in the public mind about scientific data through the use of terms such as " junk science ".
According to epidemiologist David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, and Health in the Clinton Administration, the tobacco industry invented the " sound science " movement in the 1980s as part of their campaign against the regulation of second-hand smoke.
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