A third of a century has passed since the first U.S. Surgeon General's report on smoking persuasively assembled the scientific case on the lethal effects of the habit. Yet the rest of the Federal Government, deftly manipulated by the powerful tobacco industry and fearful of antagonizing the industry's tens of millions of addicted customers, has allowed the cigarette to remain our most deadly but least regulated consumer product. Its manufacturers, meanwhile, doggedly denied that the ever mounting medical evidence against them constituted conclusive proof, yet insisted, with ultimate brass, that smokers had been amply warned of the health risks they might...
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