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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/08/2014 08:49 PM, David Green via
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2537" dir="ltr"> James Heins
took out a full page ad in today's paper in support of Phyllis
Wise. He is listed as follows on sciencecorruption.com: <a
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2556" dir="ltr">A James
Heins [ Prof.] </div>
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<h4 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2557">— A University of
Illinois cash-for-comments economist who worked for the
tobacco industry — </h4>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2559"><b>Professor James
Heins</b> was one of the original cabal of economists who
became the nation-wide network working for the Tobacco
Institute. It was put together by tobacco lobbyist <b>James
Savarese</b> and <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2565">Professor
Robert Tollison</b> of George Mason University who
collaborated in the 1980s to provide the tobacco industry with
academics willing to write propaganda material ... always
provided their names were not linked to the industry or to any
of the cigarette companies.</div>
<div> The idea was simply that the academic 'sleepers' would be
available on a cash-for-services basis when needed to counter
attempts to increase excise taxes, or to ban public smoking,
or just to appear as independent experts at Congressional
hearings and promote the industry causes.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2544"> Economist were by far
the most useful academics to the tobacco industry because the
distinction between economics and politics was never clear: so
support of the cigarette companies could always be claimed as
support for free-market economics ... the rights of
individuals to make public choices ... small government ... or
even the first Amendment to the Constitution.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2543"> The economist always
claimed to be 'independent', 'professionals' and they wre
recognised 'academics' from some credible university. They
never revealed the source of their funding in their op-eds or
letters-to-the-editor. </div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2539"> If ever put under
cross-examination, they must be able to claim with weasel-word
precision, that they had never received a penny from the
tobacco industry. Therefore all payments were laundered,
either through tobacco industry lawyers (usually <b>
Covington & Burling</b>), the principle organisers, <b>
James Savarese & Associates</b>, or through Bob
Tollison's <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2542"> Center
for the Study of Public Choice</b> at George Mason
University.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412772434010_2541"> The aim was to have,
in each State, at least one academic economist, one academic
lawyer, and one academic from a business management, business
law, marketing or advertising discipline willing to jump into
action and write op-ed articles for their local newspaper, or
to appear at local ordinance or legislative hearings. Copies
of these articles were always to be sent to a local
Congressman who sat on some important (to the tobacco
industry) committee.</div>
<div> The academics were always expected to wave their own and
their university's credentials vigorously, and loudly proclaim
their "independence' from any crass-commercial motives. And
those who could boast of being 'non-smokers' were especially
prized — since without this addiction, their
non-dependent-on-tobacco status was thought to be proved
beyond any doubt!</div>
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