| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 34 Legal issues |
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| The first outsider ever to see the tobacco papers that describe some of the unusual |
| story of tobacco and health research was Judge H. Lee Sarokin of the U.S. District |
| Court in New Jersey, in the spring of 1988. The papers were not allowed in open |
| court, but were first read by the judge while they were sealed. After reading them, he |
| wrote that the jury could reasonably conclude that the Tobacco Industry Research |
| Council "was nothing but a hoax created for public relations purposes with no intention |
| of seeking the truth or publishing it...The intensity of the advertising and public |
| relations was sufficient to create the desired doubt in the minds of the consumer, and |
| overwhelm or undermine pronouncements as to the dangers...The magazine Tobacco |
| and Health mailed free to practically every doctor in the country... was a blatant and |
| biased account of the smoking 'controversy'." For those remarks, the tobacco |
| companies protested to a higher court, and Judge Sarokin was removed from the |
| case for bias. |
| Quote from Smokescreen, p. 21 |
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