Air Conditioning & Ventilation Associates

Air Conditioning & Ventilation Associates was a company that was concerned with indoor air quality. It was taken over by the tobacco industry.

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Air Conditioning and Ventilation Associates Atlantic (ACVA Atlantic) was a business concerned with indoor air quality. It was run by a man named Gray Robertson, who became a tobacco industry consultant. ACVA and Robertson helped disseminate the tobacco industry's strategy of avoiding discussion of the environmental tobacco smoke/health link by deflecting attention away from secondhand smoke to "the larger problem of all of indoor air."

ACVA became Healthy Buildings International (HBI) and Philip Morris eventually took on more of the operations of HBI and made it international. ACVA/HBI and Philip Morris invented and publicized "Sick Building Syndrome" to take attention away from cigarettes as a point-source of indoor air pollution.

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