# Preacher -- The New Show / Old Comic Now Airing on AMC

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**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/preacher-the-new-show-old-comic-now-airing-on-amc/755371/35 "2016-05-24T19:45:01Z")

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> [@EllisDee](#):
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> Provide a cite that the TV show Preacher is funded by Big Tobacco, or shut the fuck up.

It’s a minor and obscure comic, one of a couple that focuses on the major character smoking, and it’s one of the few being made into a TV show.\* Ipso facto. \*  
Big Tobacco carefully hides it’s funding, that has been well established.  
[http://www.who.int/tobacco/media/en/TobaccoExplained.pdf](http://www.who.int/tobacco/media/en/TobaccoExplained.pdf)

> **[How the tobacco industry built its relationship with Hollywood](https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/suppl_1/i81.full)**
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> Objective: To describe the development of the relationship between the tobacco industry and the entertainment industry.
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> Methods: Review of previously secret tobacco industry documents available on the internet.
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> Results: Both the entertainment and...

[http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/sfm10\_nyt.pdf](http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/sfm10_nyt.pdf)

So we know they lie.

Provide a cite that they\* didn’t \*fund it.

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