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Records dating back to the 1930s demonstrate the sugar industry, sometimes in cooperation with dental interests, exaggerated fluoride’s effectiveness and downplayed safety concerns. The sugar industry’s science manipulation campaign preceded the better-known tobacco industry campaign defending cigarettes. Key leaders o...
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Recently available records reveal a long history of the sugar industry distorting fluoride science. Many of the sugar industry’s tactics were later adopted by the tobacco industry and mirrored by industries involved in asbestos, lead, pesticides, climate change denial, and others. Researchers and policymakers should be...
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Sugar industry, Fluoride, Fluoridation, History, Science manipulation, Tobacco industry, Caries, Adverse health effects, Smoking
*Correspondence:
Christopher Neurath
cneurath@AmericanHealthStudies.org
¹ American Environmental Health Studies Project (AEHSP), North Sutton, NH, United States
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Background
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Recent scholarly research has uncovered the sugar industry’s efforts to deny or minimize sugar’s contribution to obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and tooth decay by manipulating the scientific record [1–5]. Along with
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© The Author(s) 2025. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the...
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Neurath Environmental Health (2025) 24:62
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Z 991 no. 5 1960 Sugar Research 1943-1959 SUGAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
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Fig. 6 Key people connecting the sugar industry to the dental establishment and tobacco industry. A Robert Hockett, Scientific Director of the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) from 1943 to 1953. In 1954 he switched to become Associate Scientific Director of the Tobacco Industry Research Committee when it first formed an...
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A few years later, Hockett arranged to have Stare pass tobacco industry money through the Harvard Nutrition Department to an anthropologist, Carl Seltzer, who was nominally employed by the department [161–164].¹² Seltzer actually worked full-time promoting a tobacco industry message claiming smoking did not cause heart...
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Sugar is essential ingredient in cigarettes making them more harmful and addictive
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There was another link between the sugar and the tobacco industries, a link that played a key role in the rapid increase
¹² According to The Center For Media and Democracy’s SourceWatch, Stare essentially laundered money for Seltzer from the tobacco industry: “Over a number of decades, more than $2 million in tobacco money passed through secret accounts and were channeled to Seltzer via Stare. The companies paid on a pro-rata basis accor...
¹³ The arrangement in which Stare surreptitiously passed tobacco money to Seltzer (while taking a cut) lent the name “Harvard” as cover for Seltzer’s cigarette defense efforts. It lasted from 1963–1977, and netted Seltzer over $2 million. Archived financial statements of Stare’s Harvard Nutrition Department from its in...
in cigarette sales starting early in the twentieth century. Sugar was found to reduce the alkalinity of tobacco smoke to make it mild enough to inhale into the lungs, something not typically done with the previous common methods of smoking tobacco in pipes and cigars. “Sugar and tobacco have a long and incestuous histo...
In one of Hockett’s SRF science bulletins from 1949 an article describes the crucial role of added sugar in making cigarette smoke less irritating [167]. It describes the chemistry of added sugars that produce a less alkaline smoke. Unmentioned is that smoke from cigarettes produces a faster and stronger nicotine respo...
In 1950, the SRF commissioned a report by a biochemist/statistician to estimate the market for sugar in the burgeoning cigarette industry. The report, titled “Tobacco and Sugar” confirmed for the sugar industry leaders what
¹⁴ Proctor describes the link between sugar and tobacco: “This business of sugar in tobacco leaf is a fascinating one — and insufficiently appreciated outside the tobacco man’s labs. Sugar and tobacco have a long and incestuous history, and as one leading insider put it in the 1940s, ‘Were it not for sugar, the America...
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Exhibit E: Form of Invoice
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
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