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John Cooksey: “The two biggest problems in this country today are trial lawyers and tobacco. They are both bad. They are bad for this…”

On the recordApril 22, 1998
The two biggest problems in this country today are trial lawyers and tobacco. They are both bad. They are bad for this country. They are bad for the people's health and they are the ones that are trying to perpetrate this problem, this tobacco settlement, on this country today. I am a physician. I spent my career taking care of people with health problems, and I promise, tobacco is bad. We have been publicizing it for years. It has been on the tobacco packages since 1962. Mr. Speaker, anybody that smokes cigarettes is crazy. But this tobacco settlement is a farce that is strictly to transfer money to the trial lawyers and to create a lot of unfounded hope for money to support programs that will never be done.
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John Cooksey
Republican · Louisiana
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Addressing the issues of trial lawyers and tobacco during a speech on tobacco settlement.

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