Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
Tobacco companies have come to personify the devil, and strategies to exorcise tobacco smoking from the United States proliferate. Tobacco's demonic status is even reflected in popular fiction. John Grisham's latest bestseller, The Runaway Jury, for example, is a broadside attack on tobacco companies. He opens the book by noting that tobacco companies “had been thoroughly isolated and vilified by consumer groups, doctors, even politicians.” This was bad, but it was getting even worse: “Now the lawyers were after them.”
Recommended Citation
George J. Annas,
Tobacco Litigation as Cancer Prevention: Dealing with the Devil
,
in
336
New England Journal of Medicine
304
(1997).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1256
Comments
From The New England Journal of Medicine, George J. Annas, Tobacco Litigation as Cancer Prevention: Dealing with the Devil, Volume 336, Page 304 Copyright ©(1997) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.