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LETTER: Big-tobacco jackpot  

Jump to full article: Des Moines (IA) Register, 2002-08-04
Author: Donald Wright / Stockport.

Intro:

The total fees for lawyers from 19 states came to $13.59 billion for the 1998 tobacco lawsuits.

After one state won its monstrous award, a sleazy, scummy looking lawyer announced on TV, "What a success for the children."

It sounded honorable to say the lawsuits were to recover costs for sick smokers. Now some of our state leaders can't wait to get their greedy fingers on tobacco money and spend it on anything they can.

The legal profession is getting worse than organized crime.

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