Going back a little further in history, Big Tobacco used the oil industry's playbook (Ivy Lee and the Rockefellers in 1914, Ivy Lee and IG Farben in 1929, etc.)

Going back a little further in history, Big Tobacco used the oil industry's playbook (Ivy Lee and the Rockefellers in 1914, Ivy Lee and IG Farben in 1929, etc.) as the basis of its own psychological manipulation of mass opinion strategies. There was also a fair amount of opposition to these tactics at the time, see the creation of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Propaganda_Analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Propaganda_Analy... It was shut down in 1942, most seem to think this was because neutral analysis of propaganda was no longer tenable in the middle of wartime. It was unfortunately not resurrected during the post-war period. We'd all be better off if propaganda analysis and critical analysis were being taught to children beginning at the grade school level - but that doesn't happen because an easily manipulated population is the desired goal of the US ruling class. As far as gas vs. electric stoves, modern electrical induction stoves are IMO superior to gas for several reasons, indoor air quality improvements being just one factor - they're also easier to get diifferent consistent heat level outputs from.