Newsweek, May 27th, 1996
WE'LL SAY THIS-AND ONLY THIS-for John Grisham's latest legal thriller, The Runway Jury (401 pages. Doubleday. $26.95), about a tobacco-liability lawsuit: he could hardly have timed it better. Some two dozen states are currently considering anti-tobacco suits, and this summer the FDA will try to get cigarettes under its regulatory thumb on the ground that they're delivery systems for the addictive drug nicotine. "The Runaway Jury" hits the stores just as three new nonfiction exposes--"Ashes to Ashes," "Smokescreen" and "The Cigarette Papers"--are sinking Big Tobacco's reputation another few f...
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