Naturally, the tobacco industry is violently opposed.

烟草业自然遭到强烈反对。

The park used to be home to factories operated by the country's state-run tobacco industry.

该公园曾是该国国营烟草业经营的工厂所在地。

Most famously, public nuisance claims helped bring a $246 billion settlement from the tobacco industry in 1998.

最著名的是，1998年，公共妨害诉讼帮助烟草行业获得了2460亿美元的和解。

He said officials should urge the tobacco industry to develop less harmful choices to smoking such as snus and e-cigarettes.

他说，官员们应该敦促烟草行业开发出危害较小的选择，如鼻烟和电子烟。

Come with me in a tobacco industry document time machine.

跟我一起乘坐烟草业文件时间机器。

And our guide is previously secret internal documents from the tobacco industry.

而我们的指南是以前来自烟草业的秘密内部文件。

Engagement with the tobacco industry is futile.

与烟草业的接触是徒劳的。

In fact, engagement with the tobacco industry has never led to less human death.

事实上，与烟草业的接触从未减少过人类死亡。

What the tobacco industry knew was that human beings don't smoke like machines.

烟草业知道人类不像机器那样吸烟。

The tobacco industry externalizes all those costs, with an estimated one trillion US dollars per year.

烟草业将所有这些成本外部化，估计每年有 1 万亿美元。

The tobacco industry thought it would be so unpopular that Congress would never dare do it again.

烟草业认为这会很不受欢迎，国会再也不敢这么做了。

They are gigantic because Connecticut actually had a tobacco industry for quite a while.

它们之所以庞大， 是因为康涅狄格州实际上有很长一段时间的烟草业。

But James Sekajugo of the Ugandan health ministry says it is hard to fight the tobacco industry: “a very rich group here”.

但是乌干达卫生部长James Sekajugo说与烟草行业作斗争难度很大：“这是这里非常富有的组织”。

They say Exxon, also known as Esso, has acted like the tobacco industry in obscuring data that would be dangerous to its business.

也被人们称之为“埃索”的埃克森美孚公司就像烟草产业一样，隐瞒不利数据。

This all happened despite the continuing objections of the tobacco industry, which often invoked a slippery-slope argument.

尽管烟草业不断反对，这一切还是发生了，这常常引发滑坡争论。

I asked Michael Pertschuk, a leading Senate staffer, how many full-time advocates were working on tobacco industry control at that time.

我问参议院主要工作人员迈克尔·佩舒克，当时有多少全职倡导者在从事烟草业控制工作。

But it begs the question, why should any of us, in any country, be paying for the costs of the tobacco industry?

但这引出了一个问题， 为什么我们任何人， 在任何国家，都要为烟草业的成本买单？

Because the tobacco industry claimed that it would cause mass chaos, and that what we would see were literally riots on airplanes.

因为烟草业声称这会造成大规模混乱，而我们将看到的实际上是飞机上的骚乱。

The 1980s climax: our dramatic struggle to limit smoking in public places, regulate the tobacco industry and establish conditions for reducing smoking.

1980 年代的高潮： 我们为限制在公共场所吸烟、规范烟草业和为减少吸烟创造条件而进行的激烈斗争。

The initial law banning smoking on short flights was by design — and by request of the tobacco industry — doomed to sunset after only two years.

最初禁止在短途航班上吸烟的法律是有意为之的，也是应烟草业的要求而制定的，仅仅两年后就注定要废止。