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Background
By 1963, tobacco industry scientists knew that the nicotine in cigarettes was addictive. But they never advised the office of the U.S. Surgeon General, which in 1964 issued its report linking smoking and lung cancer. "One can speculate only with enormous regret," observed former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, "how knowledge of the nicotine's addictiveness might have influenced the report, thus saving countless lives." (National Library of Medicine). In the years since, tobacco companies have continued to market their product despite knowing that it was killing people. In 1994, chairmen of the leading tobacco companies testified before Congress that nicotine is not addictive.
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