{"id":122,"date":"2018-06-16T13:01:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=122"},"modified":"2018-06-18T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T11:38:23","slug":"the-past-the-present-the-future","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/the-paper\/the-past-the-present-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The past, the present, the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cIt\u2019s the only issue I know of where there aren\u2019t two sides \u2013 two intelligent sides. I have a comic-book mentality \u2013 I grew up with comic books \u2013 and I see this as good versus evil.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nJoseph Cherner, former bond trader and head of Smoke-free Educational Services, 1993<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201c\u2026 that\u2019s the question that I have applied to my research relating to tobacco: If this comes out the way I think, will it make a difference [toward achieving the goal]. And if the answer is yes, then we do it, and if the answer is I don\u2019t know, then we don\u2019t bother. Okay? And that\u2019s the criteria.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<br \/>\nStanton Glantz, Conference transcript, 1992<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"\/?page_id=124\">Introduction<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/?page_id=128\"><em>Who knew?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/?page_id=136\"><em>The pursuit of a safer cigarette<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/?page_id=139\"><em>From harm reduction to \u201cquit or die\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/?page_id=142\"><em>The e-cigarette debate in an historical context<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/?page_id=153\"><em>Back to the future in harm reduction<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the only issue I know of where there aren\u2019t two sides \u2013 two intelligent sides. I have a comic-book mentality \u2013 I grew up with comic books \u2013 and I see this as good versus evil.\u201d Joseph Cherner, former <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/the-paper\/the-past-the-present-the-future\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/122\/revisions\/218"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smokingoutthetruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}