Research from organizations like the Climate Investigations Center and investigative journalists is illustrating in vivid detail how long the gas industry was aware of these harms and how hard it worked to sweep them under the rug. Again and again, the gas industry directly replicated the tobacco industry’s tactics. From preempting local governments from taking policy action to protect public health, to forming front groups, launching deceptive public relations campaigns, suing government leaders taking action, and funding and promoting biased research, the parallels are everywhere.
This publication documents the intertwined paths of the tobacco and gas misinformation campaigns, and the similar health detriments of their products, concluding with ways state and local governments and public health advocates can come together to address the harms from indoor gas just as we have from indoor smoke.