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Big Tobacco promotes e-cigarettes, undermines health protections through U.S. business groups worldwide 

Tobacco companies use global American Chambers of Commerce chapters to block taxes, sell new nicotine products, and burnish their public image, researchers say

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Philip Morris tobacco company was the 'Gold Partner' at a March 2026 AmCham event in Poland.

Tobacco companies remain embedded in influential U.S. business groups worldwide, giving the industry a discreet and powerful channel to weaken regulation and undermine public health, a new study finds.

Newly declassified 2020 intelligence assessment found Wuhan lab’s conditions were ripe for potential coronavirus release

The previously undisclosed assessment from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was among nearly 400 pages of COVID-19 origins records released by ODNI, including emails showing analysts grappling with differing pandemic origin theories. 

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A newly declassified Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory assessment from May 2020 concluded that all of the conditions necessary for an accidental release of a laboratory-modified coronavirus were present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted.