BuzzFeed: We Took On Big Tobacco. It's Time To Take On Big Opioid.
/“We need to start discussing the contours of an opioid settlement today, and to demand that public health principles be front and center. Without that discussion, and the priorities that emerge from it, we are destined to repeat past mistakes that must not be repeated.”
James E. Tierney, "It's Time To Take On Big Opioid Like We Did With Big Tobacco," BuzzFeed News, January 10, 2018.
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The Tobacco Settlement: 20 Years Later, a resource on the historic fight against big tobacco and the men and women who led these efforts on behalf of the states.
"The Tobacco Wars: Strategist of Smoking Assault Calls Shots from Maine Farm," July 11, 1997.
"Fighting Smoke With Fire," November 17, 1998.