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Sunday, September 19, 2004

Tobacco

"In light of the current controversy surrounding breast implants, one wonders when all industries will recognize their obligation to voluntarily disclose risks from the use of their products. All too often in the choice between the physical health of consumers and the financial well-being of business, concealment is chosen over disclosure, sales over safety, and money over morality. Who are these persons who knowingly and secretly decide to put the buying public at risk solely for the purpose of making profits and who believe that illness and death of consumers is an appropriate cost of their own prosperity!
As the following facts disclose, despite some rising pretenders, the tobacco industry may be the king of concealment and disinformation."

Opinion of the Honorable Lee Sarokin in Haines v. Ligget Group, Feb, 6, 1992.

Ten Years Later

In our view, this case involves conduct that is more reprehensible than that in any of the cases that we have discussed," Judge Walter Edmonds said in a decision released Wednesday. "We believe that our original decision was correct."
Thursday, June 10, 2004 -The Oregonian, ASHBEL S. GREEN -
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