Tierney smokes out tobacco lobby

“With his telephone, fax machine, computer and an unyielding drive to challenge one of the nation’s most entrenched industries, James Tierney hacks away at the tobacco companies’ long-held claim that cigarette smoking is not addictive.

From his home in Lisbon Falls, Maine, the former Maine attorney general acts as a top consultant to 50 state attorneys general, particularly the 22 who have filed suit against the tobacco industry. Last week Tierney saw the first major dividend of his tobacco battle during a meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington.”

Paul Kane, "Tierney smokes out tobacco lobby,"" States News Service, Bangor Daily News, March 31, 1997.