Tobacco regulation, litigation, and campaigns.
The congressional testimony, the RICO findings, and the corrective statements that put the industry's own words into the public record.
4 pieces in this section
1994 · the testimony
April 1994: seven chief executives testified under oath to a House subcommittee, and the transcript became a primary source for the racketeering case that followed.
2006 · the finding
Judge Kessler's 1,683-page ruling named specific conduct, cited internal industry documents, and applied a precise statutory standard — here is what the text of the decision actually says.
The document on the left, the public answer on the right — the pairing this site is built on.
Every state sets its own cigarette excise tax, and the spread between the lowest and highest now exceeds five dollars a pack.
Domestic cigarette shipments have fallen in every decade since the 1980s — the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's figures show how far and how fast.
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