Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Unsolicited tobacco company docs

Unsolicited, the University of California received incriminating internal documents showing Brown and Williamson tobacco company knew of the addictive effect of cigarettes/nicotine. For years, the company tried to prevent the documents from being made public, but the library prevailed. CBS News caved in 1995 when threatened with a lawsuit (see the movie The Insider) over some of this material.

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