The Nation - News from June 20, 1985
Cancer victims filed three lawsuits in Boston, seeking $17 million in damages, against five tobacco companies and an industry lobbying group they hold responsible for cigarette smoke-related illnesses and deaths. The Tobacco Products Liability Project charged that the tobacco companies mislead the public by disputing scientific links between cigarette smoking and cancer. The three suits are in addition to about two dozen similar actions pending nationwide.
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