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Lissy C. Friedman, JD, Richard A. Daynard, JD, PhD and Christopher N. Banthin, JD

Lissy C. Friedman and Christopher C. Banthin are with the Tobacco Control Resource Center, Boston, Mass. Richard A. Daynard is with Northeastern University School of Law, Boston.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Lissy C. Friedman, Tobacco Control Resource Center, 102 The Fenway, Room 117, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: lissy{at}tplp.org).

Although the tobacco industry helped fund the attack on "junk science," it has created its own dubious scientific scholarship for its expert witnesses.

We suggest that plaintiffs’ counsel should be proactive in using Daubert hearings to exclude the tobacco industry defendants’ scientific expert witnesses by introducing documentation, such as we have found through researching previously privileged internal industry documents, to prove that much of their proposed testimony was developed by and for their lawyers.

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