The tobacco settlement was gigantic, and probably more than we can expect to see from opiate makers. You also saw a situation with tobacco that then gets repeated with perdufarma and opioids. They will be able to generate less income to remediate the problems than the tobacco industry was. And you not, not least, because i think that part of what allowed both of these of these businesses to continue to flourish was a sense they could sell a dangerous thing,. It's kind ofits all the responsibility of the user.
How did one family become associated with an epidemic of drug addiction that has caused the death of almost half a million people?
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