I was wondering as to why it was never published. From the linked article: "There are many possible explanations for the sudden demise of Huff’s book. The ind

I was wondering as to why it was never published. From the linked article: "There are many possible explanations for the sudden demise of Huff’s book. The industry realized in 1968 that it had a credibility problem: the public was unlikely to trust a book funded and promoted by the Tobacco Institute. Perhaps the campaign was shelved after Tiderock closed up shop. Perhaps it was too late—some tobacco regulations had already been passed, others were inevitable, and new tactics were needed. Or perhaps the thought of legal trouble made them retract their offer to advertise the book, making Macmillan kill the project. But Macmillan was on the brink of signing a contract with Huff. Did they have second thoughts, or was Huff told to kill the project? Or were the Tiderock consultants correct in their assessment that “this mass of verbiage needs drastic editing” and was unpublishable without serious revision? The Documents Library offers no clues. Only documents produced or received by the industry are included, so any correspondence between Huff and Macmillan may not appear. Andrew Gelman, professor of statistics at Columbia University, reviewed the ethics of Huff’s involvement with the industry and suggested Huff could have intentionally killed the project to save his own reputation, which would have been destroyed by his association with tobacco.2 But just a few months before the book’s demise he had been fighting for a prestigious hardcover and better royalties. Whatever the reasons, How to Lie with Smoking Statistics went unpublished, protecting its better-known sibling How to Lie with Statistics from guilt by association." Would the original book have commanded the same respect, if associated with another which would bascially be an example of what the first was meaning to expose?