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Confronting Industry Misinformation in China
Last updated April 16, 2026
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Public health advocates in China successfully blocked efforts to spread misinformation during the coronavirus outbreak
As fears of the novel coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19 rose in China, opponents of public health seized the opportunity to spread misinformation about tobacco use—an old trick the tobacco industry used during the 2003 SARS outbreak.