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People in front of me started lighting up and then other people started lighting up, says Matthew Springer, a biologist and professor in the division of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco

Hazel Cheeseman, of Action on Smoking and Health, said tobacco firms played a cruel trick on smokers for decades

In essence, the basis of the tobacco industrys strategy to market its products and burnish its reputation is, on the one hand, to offer a veneer of science defending its viewpoint and legitimising its activities and, on the other, to suggest it is moving into new, healthier markets