People ask me what the most deadly disinfo was and in pure numbers it's not close, it was the cigarette industry coverup. Cause of one out of every five deaths in US, *still*.

And then many of the same lawyers and publicists moved on from tobacco/cancer misinformation to climate change disinformation.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NATO AND ABOUT THE USA whoops sorry, reading too much Putintroll comments on Quora this came out of nowhere

I have a vivid memory of entering a corner store years ago with a stroller and a couple of school age kids and a flock of cigarette salesmen in cheap suits furtively dispersing. They knew what they were.

Oil companies/ global warming.

Oil & Gas giving it a run

Nothing, not even climate change, comes close.

Killed about 100 million people in the 20th C

what about leaded gasoline?

Yes, but sadly there’s so many.

How’s that stack up against Thomas Midgely?