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This article uses the term, " Big Tobacco", for which there is an unsourced Wikipedia stub. The term is viewed as pejorative. I suggest finding a more neutral substitute, like naming the specific companies in the suit and thereafter, referring to them as "the tobacco companies." User:HopsonRoad 20:52, 1 January 2014 (UTC) reply

A Blogger made note of a flurry of positive additions to this article in May, 2012—coincidental with the Vermont elections. User:HopsonRoad 20:58, 1 January 2014 (UTC) reply