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In some cases, corporate interests have found it useful to create " think tanks.

" For example, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition was formed in the mid 1990s to dispute research finding a link between second-hand smoke and cancer.

According to an internal memo from Philip Morris referring to the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), " the credibility of the EPA is defeatable, but not on the basis of ETS ( environmental tobacco smoke ) alone.

It must be part of a larger mosaic that concentrates all the EPA's enemies against it at one time.