"[...] over the course of more than 50 years, Defendants lied, misrepresented, and deceived the American public, including smokers and the young people they avidly sought as “replacement smokers,” about the devastating health effects of smoking and environmental tobacco smoke, they suppressed research, they destroyed documents, they manipulated the use of nicotine so as to increase and perpetuate addiction, they distorted the truth about low tar and light cigarettes so as to discourage smokers from quitting, and they abused the legal system in order to achieve their goal – to make money with little, if any, regard for individual illness and suffering, soaring health costs, or the integrity of the legal system."
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, , final opinion, 17 August 2006 (pages 1500-1501 of the document, numbered 1530-1531 in the PDF reader)
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Gladys Kessler
(January 22, 1938 – March 16, 2023) was a United States district judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia.
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