| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 34 Legal issues |
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| Kenneth Starr was the lead counsel in 1995 for twelve tobacco companies who tried |
| to decertify a class action suit against the tobacco industry. He invoked attorney-client |
| privilege in 1995 before an appellate court to aid his client Brown and Williamson in |
| their "efforts to intimidate and frustrate [Congressmen] Henry Waxman and Ron |
| Wyden, who'd used a cache of Brown and Williamson internal documents in their |
| House investigation of the cigarette industry." (Frank Rich, New York Times). |
| Representative Waxman commented: "It is questionable for a special prosecutor to |
| moonlight at all. But to front for the tobacco industry to stop the public from hearing the |
| truth is not helpful in insuring confidence in the highly political Whitewater case." |
| Starr's hourly rate was $390. |
| ...And the Horse He Rode In On, James Carville, Simon and Shuster, 1998, pp. |
| 72-74 |
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| "Despite some rising pretenders, the tobacco industry maybe the king of concealment |
| and disinformation...The plaintiff has presented strong evidence that defendants knew |
| of the health risks implicated by cigarettes." |
| Judge Lee Sarokin (World Smoking and Health, No. 1, 1992, p. 3) |
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