The Nation: Big Tobacco and the Historians
“On the stand Proctor began to explain racism in tobacco marketing. He started to say that the companies had marketed products called Nigger-Head Tobacco and Nigger-Hair Tobacco — brands that existed as late as the 1960s. But a Philip Morris attorney, objecting that Proctor had injected racial slurs into the courtroom, demanded a mistrial — and got it. The judge ruled that Proctor’s utterance of those words was ‘prejudicial.’” Revisionist history through litigation. Disgusting.
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