Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco by KFAI's MinneCulture published on 2024-03-14T13:53:21Z Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in 1998. The biggest lawsuit in the state’s history forced the tobacco industry to take down cigarette billboards and release millions of internal documents that filled a Minneapolis warehouse. When vaping e-cigarettes gained popularity among youth in the late 2010s, the Minnesota Attorney General’s office sued again, this time against market leader Juul Labs and the company’s Big Tobacco investor Altria. The lawsuit lifted thousands of new tobacco documents into the public archive. We talked to people who worked on both trials — on both sides of the case — 25 years apart. Anti-smoking campaign images provided courtesy of the Minnesota Department of Health. MinneCulture is edited by Julie Censullo and hosted by John Gebretatose. Support for MinneCulture on KFAI is provided by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund. Music: 'Ants in my pants' by SUPERARE Genre Storytelling