Sen. Hatch has a very good reason for not wanting the big tobacco companies to go bankrupt. If that happens new companies will rise up in their place and fill the void. Don't think that won't happen - it will. They'll buy up the factories already in place, buy from the same farmers and use the same distribution. They won't skip a beat in providing tobacco to the world. Only these new companies will have no liability for past damages. They won't be guilty of secretly trying to increase the addictive agents in tobacco or of hiding cancer research on their deadly product. And I don't think they'll allow incriminating memos to lie around their files to be found and turned over by whistle-blowers. There will be no recourse against them for another 30 or 40 years, if then. Even the courageous warriors who began this battle against the tobacco companies don't want that.

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