These changes fell heavily on their pockets, and to recover from such huge losses, they began to charge their customers extra
The defendants lied about the devastating health effects of smoking and environmental tobacco smoke, they suppressed research, they destroyed documents, they manipulated the use of nicotine so as to increase and perpetuate addiction, they distorted the truth about low tar and light cigarettes so as to discourage smokers from quitting, and they abused the legal system in order to achieve their goal to make money with little, if any, regard for individual illness and suffering, soaring health costs, or the integrity of the legal system, Kessler said in her final opinion
Excerpted from The Cigarette: A Political History by Sarah Milov, published by Harvard University Press
Instrumentation The LCMS/MS system (Agilent 6470B TQ LC/MS) consisted of a UHPLC (Agilent 1290 Infinity II) and an atmospheric pressure ionization triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (Agilent 6470 LC/TQ) equipped with electron spray ionization (ESI) Agilent Jetstream source
