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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 34 Legal issues |
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| | In more than 800 lawsuits between 1954 and 1994, the tobacco industry went to trial |
| | only 23 times, lost twice, and never spent a dime in damage payments. |
| | The Nation, August 28, 1995, p. 193 |
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| | The U.S. attorney's office is investigating a possible criminal conspiracy between |
| | Philip Morris and other tobacco companies in the industry's Council for Tobacco |
| | Research to subvert scientific research that reported on the deleterious effects of |
| | smoking. |
| | New York Times, February 1992 |
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| | After Philip Morris filed a $10 billion lawsuit against ABC, the time that network news |
| | shows devoted to the tobacco industry fell by more than 75% during the second half of |
| | 1994. |
| | New York Times, December 9, 1995, p. 15 |
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| | A legal brief written by lawyers for ABC-TV a month before the network settled its libel |
| | suit with Philip Morris contradicts Philip Morris statements to Congress that the |
| | company does not control or manipulate the nicotine in cigarettes. "To this extent [the |
| | Philip Morris plant] is a tobacco extract factory," the brief says. |
| | American Medical News, February 12, 1996 |
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| | Attorney General Janet Reno and the Justice Department at the request of members |
| | of Congress began an investigation of tobacco company executives' testimony to |
| | Congress that could result in charges of perjury, conspiracy to defraud the public and |
| | conspiracy to obstruct Congress. Even if the executives lied about alleging that |
| | nicotine is not addictive, however, some legal experts believe that they may be "off the |
| | hook" because they prefaced their statements by "It is my opinion that..." and "I |
| | believe that..." (nicotine is not addictive). |
| | American Medical News, June 27, 1994, p. 8 |
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