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The government case states that in December 1953, the companies met at the Plaza Hotel in New York City to discuss a coordinated industry response to recent studies documenting the health hazards of smoking, including lung cancer. The companies allegedly conspired “to preserve and expand the market for cigarettes and to maximize the Cigarette Companies’ profits. To achieve this goal, defendants’ strategy was to respond to scientific evidence of the adverse health consequences of cigarette smoking with fraud and deception” by seeking “to deny that smoking caused disease and to maintain that whether smoking caused disease was an ‘open question,’ despite having actual knowledge that smoking did cause disease.”
The next month, the companies issued a joint statement, published in newspapers across the country, seeking to discredit scientific studies that connected smoking to various health risks. According to the government, they continued to pursue a policy of deliberate deception for decades, despite mounting evidence of the dangers of smoking.