U.S. Gov't 'Cancer' Research: Tobacco Industry's ‘Astroturfing’ Helped Create Tea Party

(CNSNews.com) - In a study published online on Feb. 8 by the journal Tobacco Control, researchers from the University of California at San Francisco--working under National Cancer Institute grants that have disbursed more than $12 million over the past 12 years--argued that the tobacco industry helped create the Tea Party Movement through a process the researchers called “astroturfing.”

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