For more background on DOJs RICO case against Big Tobacco, read Bad Acts, The Racketeering Case Against the Tobacco Industry by Sharon Eubanks and Stanton Glantz
It is hard for them to do this for a new, but fast-growing industry that produces such a significant number of daily transactions
Finally, they made it clear that the new rule applied even though the ultimate user or consumer might have acquired the product through one or more intermediate dealers, and they gave a broad definition of the term user, saying that it includes those who are passively enjoying the benefit of the product, as in the case of passengers in automobiles or airplanes, as well as those who are utilizing it for the purpose of doing work upon it, as in the case of an employee of the ultimate buyer who is making repairs upon the automobile which he has purchased. Thus, in almost every respect the special new rule of strict liability, which soon became known as 402A, could be deemed to apply to the occupational experience of Claude Tomplait, who had worked for intermediate contracting firms using asbestos-insulation products that were unreasonably dangerous because they caused asbestosisan irreversible lung disease that Tomplait, who had never heard of it, could not possibly have contemplatedand because they had been packaged and shipped by their various manufacturers in containers that bore no warning labels of any kind
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They have fundamentally different levels of sweetness, tartness, and texture
