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Tobacco companies obstructed science, history professor says

Stanford history Professor Robert Proctor will speak about the tobacco industry February 18 during a symposium -- ''The Sociopolitical Manufacturing of Scientific Ignorance'' -- at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco.

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