Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claim of President Clinton and Attorney General Reno that for the last fifty years or so cigarette manufacturers have succesfully "hidden the truth" from the public is patently untrue. The president and the attorney general know that what they say is false, but they say it for political and legal reasons...
...They had a lot of public relations and legal vulnerabilities and they were smart to deal with it," Jaeger says...
...union is concerned, it felt it held the upper hand in negotiations from a legal and moral standpoint...
...laughs on the evening news." So they decided it was time to move on to a new tactic: admitting that a preponderance of evidence shows cigarettes to be risky, while leaving the actual language of disease to various government agencies. "This move is smart for Philip Morris from a legal standpoint as well," says Cohen. "Plaintiffs against the cigarette makers have been winning cases by divorcing themselves from the assumption of risk. The line is: If the cigarette companies won?t admit cigarettes are dangerous, how were we supposed to know they?d kill us?" Now that Philip Morris...
...that Big Tobacco honchos should pass around the cigars just yet. Whatever legal and p.r. pitfalls it may have avoided with this move, Philip Morris may also have just become an unwitting champion of attempts to classify tobacco as a drug, and thus be closely regulated. "This acknowledgment will definitely help the cause of regulation," says Cohen. "If something is addictive, it?s more likely to fall under FDA jurisdiction...