Additionally, the very people who funded the study question it's veracity. Why?
Just like the WHO study, it doesn't say what they wanted it to say.
From what I understand the ACS funded this until the last 2 to 4 years of the study. When they saw it was going against what they wanted it to say the defunded it posthaste.
At that point the scientists went looking for other funding.
Only the first 38 years of the study were funded by the antis - they saw which way the results were going and so pulled the funding. The researchers wanted to finish the study and so went in search of further funding. unfortunately part of that money, a very small part, came from the tobacco industry.
It doesn't matter to the antis that this was there study that they abandoned because they didn't like the results - as far as they are concerned this is a tobacco industry study and the researchers are tobacco industry stooges.