Did the government really say smoking was good for your health? Or was it the corporations selling cigarettes doing it?
I forgot what was the great movie about this with Russel Crow, the inside man I think (One of my favorite movies)
I do get on board with conspiracy theories like this, because it is a side effect of capitalism. The rich will try to get richer at anyones expense.

As far as cellphones, maybe it does affect. But it would still be a minority. And when you weigh the pros and cons I think people would take a small percentage of side effects to using cellphones in exchange for being able to communicate instantly with any person. It is just technology advancing, and hopefully they can improve designs to lessen the severity of damage (if they exist).

I have seen studies of doctors in the 20th century using radioactive isotopes in patients to study the effects of kidney damage. Those studies helped develop the treatments that today save thousands of lives at the expense of the few that were used (without their consent <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />). And we don't even need to get into what doctors in Nazi Germany did during the second world war.experimenting on the Jews.

Every single one of us, while disappointed in some of todays doctors, benefits from technology and medicine. More people have been saved by medicine than the number of people that have died in all the wars in the history of the planet.
I sure as hell wouldn't want to go back to 20-30 years life expectancy, thinking the rain thunder and sun is my God and many of us probably would have been miscarried and never have set foot in this earth.