Introduction Part III

Abstract

In this part of the book I present my research on the involvement of historians as expert judicial witnesses in tobacco litigation in the American legal system. I have made a quantitative and qualitative analysis which has allowed me to give a broad overview of those historians involved. With historians testifying for the tobacco industry remaining silent about their involvement while making hundreds of thousands of dollars through delivering doubtful historical research on the actions committed by the tobacco companies which Judge Kessler described as over the course of more than 50 years, Defendants lied, misrepresented, and deceived the American public; forensic history in tobacco litigation remains a controversial practice.