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The first outsider ever to see the tobacco papers that describe some of the unusual

story of tobacco and health research was Judge H. Lee Sarokin of the U.S. District

Court in New Jersey, in the spring of 1988. The papers were not allowed in open

court, but were first read by the judge while they were sealed. After reading them, he

wrote that the jury could reasonably conclude that the Tobacco Industry Research

Council "was nothing but a hoax created for public relations purposes with no intention

of seeking the truth or publishing it...The intensity of the advertising and public

relations was sufficient to create the desired doubt in the minds of the consumer, and

overwhelm or undermine pronouncements as to the dangers...The magazine Tobacco

and Health mailed free to practically every doctor in the country... was a blatant and

biased account of the smoking 'controversy'." For those remarks, the tobacco

companies protested to a higher court, and Judge Sarokin was removed from the

case for bias.

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