The real truth about the tobacco industry is a long story to tell. It's written in research documents and internal memos and reports. It's been spoken on witness stands in courts around the country. It's packed away in evidence boxes. It's written in the language of big business and legal mumbo-jumbo. And it's buried under a pile of money. There are thousands of characters and locations, and thousands of plot lines spanning decades.

It's a long story to tell, but when we stripped away the layers, when we dug deep, we found lots of little stories, too. Stories about this industry and the things they've done while selling a product that kills 1,200 people a day.

And all we had to do was pull back the curtain.