Recent Astroturfing Articles

How Big Tobacco and Conservative Operatives Buried the Menthol Cigarette Ban Under a Mountain of Fake Grassroots Support When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened its public comment period on a proposed ban on menthol cigarettes in 2022, the response looked, on the surface, like a democrat

How Big Tobacco Hijacked the Federal Comment Process to Kill the Menthol Cigarette Ban In the spring of 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did something it had been inching toward for more than a decade: it formally proposed banning menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and eli