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As Richard Scruggs, a key player in the genesis of the global settlement, noted, the perverse result of what we did was essentially put the states in bed with the tobacco companies. Cigarette consumption reached a high in the United States in the late 70s at about 4000 cigarettes consumed annually per capita, and has dropped steadily since, with no precipitous drop after 1998 (the year the Master Settlement Agreement passed)

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A renowned radiation biologist, he and his Wilmot team recently received an award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to investigate how to reduce pulmonary injury in patients undergoing radiation therapy, especially when those patients have recently been infected with a virus in the lungs