Huff and puff

<div> <div> <div> <p>Freelance journalist Darrell Huff rose to prominence with his book <i>How to Lie with Statistics</i>. But its sequel—a statistical counterattack to public health fears about tobacco—never made it to print. This article describes Huff's collaboration with the tobacco industry to produce <i>How to Lie with Smoking Statistics</i>, a book arguing against evidence that smoking causes lung cancer, which was nearly ready for publication before eventually being canceled.<br></p> </div> </div> </div>