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The Tobacco Master Settlement: That Time We Got Em

Published 21 July 2026Duration: 55m 9s
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By the 1990s, cigarette makers had been hooking and killing off their customers for about a century. And they’d gotten good at both as well as covering up their harms. In 1994 they were still denying cigarettes were addictive. Then, the 50 Attorneys General of the US rode into town to take them on. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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