Cigarettes, Slots, and Other Things that Aren't Addictive

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After the collapse of the tobacco industry, casinos found themselves under scrutiny for engineering addiction. This is the story of how casinos learned to mislead the public using industry funded research on gambling addiction. The problem of industry funded research isn't unique to casinos however, it's widespread and devastating to serious academic inquiry.
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Shownotes:
(1) Thank You For Smoking www.imdb.com/t...
(2) Clarence Cook Little from the CTR • Interview: Clarence Co...
(3) Slot Machines - The Big Gamble • Slot Machines: The Big...
(4) Understanding Joy: The Devastation of a Gambling Addiction • Understanding Joy: The...
(5) Slot Machines: Addiction By Design • Slot Machines: Addicti...
(6) NCRG Funding Disclosure www.ncrg.org/ab...
(7) NCRG, What is a Gambling Disorder • What is a Gambling Dis...
(8) Salon - Gambling With Science www.salon.com/...
(9) Addiction By Design - Natasha Dow Shull www.amazon.com...
(10) HMS Funding Tied to Gambling www.thecrimson...
(11) Exxon Misled the Public www.nytimes.co...
(12) How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame www.nytimes.co...
(13) Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame well.blogs.nyt...
(14) Contesting the Science of Smoking www.theatlanti...
(15) GAMBLING WITH AMERICA’S HEALTH - psmag.com/soci...
(16) How Purdue Used Misleading Charts to Hide OxyContin's Addictive Power www.cbsnews.co...
(17) Managing Conflicts of Interest www.nap.edu/re...
(18) Impact of the NCRG • Impact of the NCRG
(19) Tobacco Influence www.industrydo...
(20) Coffin Nails (1957) • Coffin Nails (1957)
Please note: there is a lot of nuance in the discussion of "what to do with conflicts of interest, it doesn't end at "prohibition or disclose" but for the sake of brevity I had to present the most fundamental approaches. For example, there are different types of conflicts of interest that differ in severity. At worst, you have tobacco researching lung cancer, but a less severe example might be someone has a consulting job for Coca-Cola while separately researching obesity's link to sugar. These are not the same level of problematic and should be treated differently. I'm for prohibition in cases like "big tobacco researching lung cancer" mostly because we've tried the whole mitigate-research-influence and it doesn't seem to work. Here's a study demonstrating that industry funded research directly affects the results: www.ncbi.nlm.n...
"Studies funded by organizations that are involved in exposing the environment to pollutants or their workers to hazardous materials are substantially less likely to observe an association that these exposures have or increase the risk for negative health consequences"