Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for March 03, 2023

Psst — Opus…

The American Booze Institute MIGHT be incorrect when it says its product regrows brain cells, does not cause aggression, and is completely harmless in large doses.

And The Red Meat Group is POSSIBLY incorrect when it says….

Well, you know.

But the Herring Foundation, now — they are TOTALLY correct.

The Vested Interests Research Consortium says so.

“More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.” 1949 TV Commercial

Sorry Opus. You can’t trust anyone these days.

And it’ll cure your asthma too. — F Zappa

Tell me it ain’t so, Steve. Tell me it ain’t so!

“Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ’em!” was always a good line in old war movies.

They used to tell pregnant women that smoking was good for them!

..and American Big Food is also lying, a diet based on large quantities of wheat, corn products and sugars is as unhealthy as smoking.

Big Oil is next. Turns out their own scientists have been predicting large-scale climate change since the 1960s, but they chose to cover it up and lie about it. The cost of the cigarette litigation—the costs to society from the tobacco industry—pale in comparison to the costs of climate change from oil and gas.

Ahh, so that’s it! BIAS.

Heck, that’s so common nowadays, it’s hard to find any communication free of bias. Sadly….