The Tobacco Industry and the Oil Companies

Muffet: When tobacco companies needed to assess the toxics in their cigarettes and in cigarette smoke, the people they turned to were the oil companies. Muffet: Texco, Chevron, Exxon, SO and more all named defendants in the tobacco suits. He says it's worth recognizing that as part of the tobacco litigation it came out that both the filter manufacturers and the tobacco companies understood all along that those filters were a marketing tool. "They did virtually nothing to reduce the toxic nature of cigarette smoke," he says.