Reddit reviews The Doubt Factory

This is the Paolo Bacigalupi book I mentioned.

It's relevant here because it's about propaganda essentially, and the response to it, and in parts about how that response is put down by money. He wrote it after reading Merchants of Doubt which is now on my reading list. This one is factual so may be more to your taste, rather than a novel.

What I'm interested in, is how seeing the response to vaping effects peoples politics, and what those politics were/are. There is the hipster stereotype of the cloud chaser, and I recall studies showing the majority of people are sort of thirties, ex smokers at the age where they want to give up, getting on with it quietly.

The right, in the UK where I live, I reckon (guess) will be less likely to be vapers due to the right wing press here. There seems to be a difference to the US, where Fox is impressively supportive, and I've unsubscribed from the very left wing TYT due to the antiscience they peddle. And a libertarian influence as to whether people are vapers, which makes sense with the government disaster-legislation that you are talking about in California and is happening in lots of places.

I never said Sony did it. I said you can take a shitty situation and make bucks on it. Its what spin doctors do.

A good book on this is "Doubt is their product".
If you dont like textbooks then try "Doubt Factory" a fictional book based upon the book above. An oldie but goodie is "Propaganda". None of those texts delve into mysterious conspiracies. Doubt is their product is a well researched defence of science in the face of highly skilled spin doctors. You can also learn a lot, but from a different angle from George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" its free. In this day and age it is vital for a citizen in a democracy to understand the constant barrage of propaganda from all sides.

it has nothing to do with who carried out the attack.

The constant accusation that if Sony tries to profit, then it was Sony who did all of it, is a derailment and a logical fallacy.

Who did it, is a separate discussion