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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Up in smoke: How Big Tobacco is keeping us hooked
Description: The rise of vapes and ever-increasing cigarette regulations are a big threat to Big Tobacco. What new methods have they dreamed up to keep us smoking? Dr. Kasia Tomasiewicz is joined by tobacco industry expert Robert Branston, associate professor in business economics at the University of Bath, to explore how Big Tobacco is still raking in huge profits.
“Tobacco is a product like no other legal product in terms of its lethality.”
“The profits are as addictive for these tobacco companies as tobacco is for the consumers.”
“It's very easy to think tobacco is yesterday's problem, b...