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Many tobacco executives swore otherwise when testifying before Representative Henry Waxman's health subcommittee in 1994, but consistency has never been central to the industry's legal defense--overwhelming force has. As RJ Reynolds lawyer J. Michael Jordan put it in a 1988 memorandum, "To paraphrase General Patton, the way we won those cases was not by spending all of Reynolds' money but by making that other son of a bitch spend all his." Liggett Group, for instance, spent an estimated $75 million fighting the Cipollone case in New Jersey; though the jury awarded the husband of Rose Cipollone...
...lawyers are less quick with a response, however, when asked about what Florida assistant attorney general Jim Peters refers to as "the big bad bear out there": the federal perjury probe launched after seven tobacco CEOs testifying at the Waxman hearings swore that nicotine was not addictive. Philip Morris lawyers point out that their former CEO, William Campbell, did not say tobacco is not addictive: he only said he doesn't believe it is addictive, a "personal viewpoint he has every right to hold," says York. Some tobacco experts speculate that the tobacco industry may seek a deal in which...
...largest cigarette manufacturers filed a lawsuit claiming that the FDA has no jurisdiction over cigarettes and that the advertising restrictions violate their First Amendment rights. But Clinton has tried to entice the tobacco companies into backing a law that would directly impose the restrictions he seeks. California Democrat Henry Waxman, the leading antismoking figure in the House, predicts that the new Republican majority might pass these reforms rather than let their nemesis, the FDA, regulate the industry...
When Democrats ran the house, the health and environment subcommittee office was a no-smoking preserve ruled by anti- tobacco crusader Representative Henry Waxman. Today the subcommittee is part of the domain of Republican Thomas Bliley Jr., a pipe lover who hails from the tobacco state of Virginia. Smoking is now accepted in the old subcommittee room, and congressional aides gleefully flick their ashes into a glass ashtray placed atop Waxman's picture...
Nonsmokers are in a huff. "That's what passes for wit among some Republicans," said Phil Schiliro, an aide to Waxman, referring to the placement of his boss's picture under the ashtray. "That epitomizes their philosophy: 'Those Democrats didn't know anything, and if they're against smoking we'll be for it and blow smoke in their faces.' " Senator Frank Lautenberg, who once successfully pushed to ban smoking in all facilities that receive federal funds and that serve children, now has to make his way to his Capitol Hill office past small groups of Republican aides lighting...