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With so much money at stake, obviously there is pressure applied to get the settlement down, but it seems pretty opportunistic of the Democrats to "call for an investigation". The suit was filed in '99, you can't keep going back to the well on this, at this point I can't imagine somebody's claim of ignorance of the health risks! It is a legal enterprise to grow and sell tobacco, and people are going to continue to smoke.
They need to take the money and help fund Medicare though, instead of "cessation" programs. That is where the social cost is going to be for us over the next 40 years.
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