Essay, Research Paper: Tobacco Industry

Tobacco industry

are dangerous and that
nicotine is addictive. A Liggett official made the statement last week
in settling lawsuits by
22 states. The letters a new nationwide poll commissioned by an
anti-smoking group
indicated that 73 percent of Americans '' should hold hearings on the
tobacco industry.''
Democrats held dramatic hearings in 1994 to investigate tobacco industry
practices. After
Republicans won control of the House in the November 1994 elections, the
new majority
party ended the tobacco hearings.America's largest tobacco company tests
new products
all the time,usually out of the limelight. But the 1990 project
conducted at the
now-defunct Bermuda Hundred production complex in Chesterfield County is
under
federal investigation, sources said, because it involved the transfer of
nicotine from one
batch of tobacco to another an issue provoking heated debate in
Congress.
Philip Morris filed a $10 billion lawsuit in Richmond against ABC. A
year
later, an out-of-court settlement was reached when the network made a
carefully worded
apology for the spiking charges. Still, ABC stuck by what it insisted
was the main thrust of
the program -- that the nation's major tobacco companies ''control the
levels of nicotine in
cigarettes in order to keep people smoking.''(Times)