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lunes, 12 de agosto de 2013

newslaundry.com - India - 11 de Agosto de 2013

TOBACCO KILLS: DON’T BE DUPED*

They had never lost a case in the United States of America, winning over 300 in 40 years. Selling death as life to people around the world, the tobacco industry was invincible. Smoke when you are happy, sad, thin, short, fat, worried, black, bored, white, blue and green. They hired the best spin-doctors, they lied about science, they captured the mood, they had the country, they had the color, the race, even the saliva, all sorted out. Our children were and continue to be their next targets. And then, in 1994, Minnesota happened. In a 15-week court trial that saw several CEOs of tobacco companies testify – the case went up to the US Supreme Court – the bottom was blown out of Big Tobacco seven i.e. Philip Morris, Inc., RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp, BAT Industries plc, Lorillard Tobacco Co, American Tobacco Co, Liggett Group Inc.

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