If chemicals added to cigarettes were the main reason for a rise in smoking related cancer,?

Most all the litigation during the lawsuits against cigarette companies is currently undergoing investigative review, since it was discovered the lawyer who launched the prosecution against the tobacco giants was found guilty of fraud ( quietly working on discreetly deposited mega-million $$$ from the tobacco giants themselves!!). The "evidence" against the tobacco giants MAY have been rigged---and the Feds are seriously looking into THAT possibility.

From the immediate appearance from these new developments, it brazenly appears the whole tobacco company lawsuit deal was a complete sham---one the anti-smokers and Nancy Pelsoi both are trying vainly to cover up and quiet down.

It was---and still is--all about the $$$money$$$.

Higher fines and even higher "excise taxes" ( courtesy of Ms. Pelosi ) were NEVER intended to punish the tobacco giants; they were legal price gouging tools to generate 7x profits AND earmark fund the Obama-care health plan--which now seems so NOT anytime soon to be created. But at the time, 10 years ago, the lawsuit "settlements" really did seem to be a "win/win" for attorneys on both sides--which in itself did seem suspicious.

What Pelosi didn't think about was the protests by angry smokers--who socked it to her by QUITTING SMOKING--something that's torpedo hit Nancy's health-care profit funding plan.

There's currently a media "black out" of this, but angry voters in ALL states are DEMANDING repeals of their state's current "clean air" ( non-smoking ) acts and laws; the number of such demands grows each day and legislators who get tapped to write such "clean air" acts are expected to meet their political kiss of death come election day.