Wow...check out all the "it's all bullshit because it was partially funded by the tobacco companies" responses from the same people who told me it was totally and absolutely irrelevant that the major anti-war protests were organized, funded, and controlled by anti-American hard-line Marxists.

Why do people immediately nail down possible conflicts of interest for things they oppose, but refuse to acknowledge them for things they support? This is true across the political spectrum, but the Left is notorious for singling out financial conflicts of interest, and ignoring political ones.

The actual paper can be found here, in case anyone is interested in actually deciding for themselves, instead of having it filtered through the L. A. Times.