Isn't the tradition that something reaches mass market before whatever suppression and disinformation campaigns, paid for by the industry, before there's a stro

Isn't the tradition that something reaches mass market before whatever suppression and disinformation campaigns, paid for by the industry, before there's a strong enough response and therefore reaction by elected officials - who otherwise don't pay attention to such issues? Hopefully it's not harmful/toxic, but we don't seem to have an apparatus that counters the above influence; sugar, cigarettes, asbestos, etc.