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Bad News for Tobacco May Translate to Drug Companies in Future

  • September 21, 2004

The US Justice Department is seeking nearly 1/3 of a TRILLION dollars in a megatrial and fraud case that could cripple the leading U.S. cigarette firms if they lose. In the federal case, prosecutors accuse Big Tobacco of a vast marketing, legal and health conspiracy over five decades in which they lied about the dangers of smoking, manipulated nicotine levels and targeted the youth market. Drawing from millions of pages of legal testimony, scientific research and the tobacco industry's own...