For decades, Big Tobacco & Big Oil ran nearly identical deception playbooks. Their own 1950s/70s internal science proved their products caused cancer & climate change. Their response? Not warning the public, but launching multi-billion dollar campaigns to manufacture doubt, fund biased research, and lobby against regulation. They turned settled science into public "debate," knowingly sacrificing millions of lives for profit. The result: over 320 million years of healthy human life are lost annually to smoking & pollution-driven disease. This wasn't accident—it was fraud. The "Human Longevity Fund" is therefore restitution, not a tax. It forces these industries to pay for the years they stole by funding the science to add them back