Big tobacco is afraid to have the truth about cigarettes revealed in court.
As secret documents began to be released and top tobacco executives were deposed, the tobacco companies caved in to Florida's public health demands and settled the case. Now big tobacco is looking to Congress to pass a global bailout which will prevent other states from holding the cigarette companies accountable for the harm they have caused and reveal more of the truth hidden in the secret documents. Yet when a cancer victim had the audacity to sue, tobacco moguls laughed it off. The suit ultimately was dropped. Fast-forward four decades.