Wie die Arbeit des "Wissenschaftlers" der Tabaklobby in "Thank You For Smoking"

übrigens ein geiler Film und eine der ganz wenigen amerikanischen Komödien mit gehobenem bissigen Humor statt dem üblichen Klamauk.

Jedenfalls erzählt darin der Protagonist (und Sprecher der Tabak-Lobby):

Few people on this planet know what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organizing that kills one thousand two hundred human beings a day; twelve hundred people. We're talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women, and children. I mean there's Attila, Genghis, and me, Nick Naylor the face of cigarettes, the colonel sanders of nicotine. This is where I work, the Academy of Tobacco Studies. It was established by seven gentlemen you may recognize from C-Span. These guys realized quick if they were gonna claim cigarettes were not addictive they better have proof. This is the man they rely on, Erhardt Von Grupten Mundt. They found him in Germany. I won't go into the details. He's been testing the link between nicotine and lung cancer for thirty years, and hasn't found any conclusive results. The man's a genius, he could disprove gravity.

im O-Ton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXvNOZezo-Q
Bzw übersetzt (Deutsch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y32gr7DTHsE&t=33s

…und später, in einem "congressional hearing", erzählt er wie die von seiner Organisation finanzierten Wissenschaftler Hinweise darauf gefunden haben wollen, dass Rauchen gegen Alzheimer wirkt:

• Senator Ortolan Finistirre : Mr. Naylor, as Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies, what was required of you? What did you do?
• Nick Naylor : I informed the public of all the research performed in the investigation on the effects of tobacco.
• Senator Ortolan Finistirre : And what, so far, has the Academy concluded in their investigation into the effects of tobacco?
• Nick Naylor : Well, many things actually. Why just the other day they uncovered evidence that smoking can offset Parkinson's disease.