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The Nation - News from April 30, 1987

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American Tobacco Co. must reveal secret additives in its Pall Mall brand cigarettes as part of a lawsuit filed by the family of a lung-cancer victim, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled. The unanimous high court ruling upheld an order by Holmes County Circuit Judge Gray Evans. In his original order, Evans said the information would have a protected status designed to prevent American Tobacco trade secrets from reaching competitors. The lawsuit, filed by the widow and son of Nathan Henry Horton, alleged that his disease was caused by smoking Pall Mall cigarettes.

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