John Oliver Explains Why No One Will Admit to Marketing Deadly Products

Big Tobacco has to put its money somewhere...

In case you missed it, John Oliver’s Sunday Last Week Tonight segment on the tobacco industry was an eye-opener — especially coming, as it did, in the wake of a study which found that smoking is even deadlier than previously thought.

The segment, which is really worth 18 minutes of your time if you haven’t seen it, took us back to a couple of posts we wrote last fall.

First, we heard from several sources in September that a South Carolina/New York-based marketing agency had lost the RJ Reynolds/Camel account. Finding

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