Ezra's Addiction

Cornell’s ties to Big Tobacco amount to a crisis of credibility for the University. Early last month, The Sun reported that nearly $1 million of funding in the plant breeding and genetics department came from Philip Morris USA, one of the world’s largest tobacco corporations. Cornell’s image is additionally under fire at the hands of recent revelations that a Weill Cornell lung cancer study received funding from Big Tobacco via an entity — ironically dubbed “The Lung Cancer Foundation” — that effectively acted as a shell company to obscure the dubious identities of the study’s benefactors.