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Buried evidence
Zegart, Dan | March 4, 1996 issue

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This article focuses on the airing of the program "Smoke Screen," on television advertising of cigarette industry by ABC. Within weeks of the broadcast on February 28,1994, Congressional hearings were under way to explore the program's central charge: that tobacco companies deliberately fine-tune nicotine levels to keep millions of Americans addicted to cigarettes. In addition, the media disparaging of "Smoke Screen" was done without the benefit of tens of thousands of pages of internal Philip Morris documents turned over to ABC during the lawsuit and returned after the settlement, when all case records were sealed and a gag order imposed. INSET: Comments, by D.Z..

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TELEVISION programs; AMERICAN Broadcasting Co.; CIGARETTE industry; ADVERTISING -- Cigarettes; TELEVISION advertising; TOBACCO industry
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