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News Analysis: The Supreme Court Smoke-Out 

As the financial fate of the tobacco industry continues to play itself out in smaller courtrooms across United States, the U.S. Supreme Court this week effectively charged juries with a monumental new role as the lone tobacco watchdog. . . "This is really an extraordinary indictment of what our democracy has come to," said Professor Richard Daynard of Boston's Northeastern University Law School. "The basic institutions of government -- the executive branch and Congress -- are supposed to protect us. Unfortunately Congress is owned and operated by the tobacco industry."

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