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How tobacco killed everyone I loved most and what I intend to do about it

Big tobacco killed my family. It's time to expose the industries learning from their playbook as they kill the planet.

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By Dinendra Haria LONDON, UK - DECEMBER 12, 2015 Campaigner Ken Montague (1946-2016) speaks at the Campaign Against Climate Change "Red Line" protest against inadequate climate change deal from COP21 Paris talks.

Death. I want to begin by telling you about my father’s recent death. This is the first of 24 monthly articles for openDemocracy spanning two years, examining the role of corporations and government in environmental policy and regulation. It will end with the word ‘life’.

My father was born in Stepney in 1946 amid dire poverty among the post war ruins of the East of London. This was two years after the Bretton Woods Conference and, of course, about nine months after the end of the Second World War.