The tobacco industry paid scientists to write letters to scientific journals disputing the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, according to industry documents.
Thirteen scientists received a total of $156,000, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported last week. The newspaper said those figures were based on an analysis of industry documents that became public under the terms of the settlement of a lawsuit by the State of Minnesota against tobacco companies.
For example, the newspaper said Nathan Mantel, a biostatistician and retired professor of statistics at American University, had received $10,000 to write a letter to The Journal of the American Medical Association. In that letter, Mr. Mantel questioned a 1992 study, also published by the journal, that had found evidence that secondhand smoke had caused lung cancer in residents of Athens.
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