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Exposing Mr. Butts' tricks of the trade

by KM Cummings, RW Pollay

Introduction to the second wave of research papers based on tobacco industry documents published as in the March 2002 supplement to Tobacco Control. The papers presented in the issue are based on the approximately 33 million pages of tobacco industry documents released as part of a settlement agreement between the tobacco industry and the Minnesota attorney general's office stemming from lawsuit over payment of insurance claims for treatment of tobacco caused illnesses.


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