Demonize Then Pulverize
November 1, 2004 -- Ten years ago last May, a new type of lawsuit was filed against the tobacco industry. That industry was no stranger to lawsuits; since the 1950s, it had been subjected to more than eight hundred lawsuits, and it had won practically every one of them. It had never paid a penny in court-ordered damages to a smoker or to the estate of a smoker. But this suit was different. It didn't involve smokers; it involved a state—the state of Mississippi—and it involved a new legal theory.
Dec 8, 2012
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