When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco

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But I was surprised to learn that the multipronged strategy related to gas stoves directly mirrored tactics that the tobacco industry used to undermine and distort scientific evidence of health risks associated with smoking starting in the 1950s.

This campaign was remarkable, since the basics of how gas stoves affected indoor air pollution and respiratory health were straightforward and well-established at the time.

Industry-funded studies successfully muddied the waters, as I have seen over the course of my research career, and stalled further federal investigations or regulations addressing gas stove safety.

Meet @chef_smb, founder and director of The Prospect KC - a culinary workforce development program in the heart of Kansas City.Learn more about Chef Shanita and how she uses natural gas in her delicious dishes.

Residential gas use is also controversial today because it slows the ongoing shift toward renewable energy, at a time when the impacts of climate change are becoming alarmingly clear.

In my view, exposing the tactics that vested interests use to manipulate the public can make consumers and regulators savvier and help deter other industries from using their playbook.

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“Natural gas” is a marketing term. We should be calling them the methane Industry, particularly in articles calling them out
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But I was surprised to learn that the multipronged strategy related to gas stoves directly mirrored tactics that the tobacco industry used to undermine and distort scientific evidence of health risks associated with smoking starting in the 1950s.
This campaign was remarkable, since the basics of how gas stoves affected indoor air pollution and respiratory health were straightforward and well-established at the time.
Industry-funded studies successfully muddied the waters, as I have seen over the course of my research career, and stalled further federal investigations or regulations addressing gas stove safety.
Meet @chef_smb, founder and director of The Prospect KC - a culinary workforce development program in the heart of Kansas City.Learn more about Chef Shanita and how she uses natural gas in her delicious dishes.
Residential gas use is also controversial today because it slows the ongoing shift toward renewable energy, at a time when the impacts of climate change are becoming alarmingly clear.
In my view, exposing the tactics that vested interests use to manipulate the public can make consumers and regulators savvier and help deter other industries from using their playbook.
The original article contains 984 words, the summary contains 184 words. Saved 81%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!