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Date |
| Does Philip Morris Want to Stop Kids' Smoking? |
Philip Morris and its corporate colleagues in the cigarette business have a decades-long record of being masters of deception when it comes to saying one thing and doing another. |
11/15/99 |
| Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Suits by Insurers, Labor Funds for Recovery of Tobacco-Related Health Care Costs |
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals today dismissed lawsuits brought by two labor health funds and six statewide Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurers seeking money from the tobacco industry to pay for allege |
11/15/99 |
| UK Study Supports Smoking Link to Leukemia |
LONDON (Reuters) - Smoking can cause cell damage and changes in the body's immune system which could increase the risk of adult leukemia, British researchers said on Friday. |
11/12/99 |
| Cigarette Manufacturing Continues in Macon, Ga. |
The Macon Telegraph, Georgia via NewsEdge Corporation : Nov. 11--MACON, Ga.--A year after the nation's tobacco companies settled a multibillion-dollar lawsuit with the federal government, billions of cigarettes continue to roll off lines at Brown & Willia |
11/12/99 |
| Brown & Williamson Official Says Movie Unfairly Trashes Tobacco Company
Brown & Williamson Official Says Movie Unfairly Trashes Tobacco Company |
The Macon Telegraph, Georgia via NewsEdge Corporation : Nov. 11--MACON, Ga.--It's billed as a movie drama, based on a true story, that shows the psychological terror former Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. employee Jeffrey Wigand faced when he blew the wh |
11/12/99 |
| Tobacco Settlement Proceeds to Be Released to States, Tobacco Sales Down During First Year Since Settlement |
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The national tobacco settlement reached another significant milestone today as National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) President and Washington Attorney General Christine Gregoire announced that tobacco payment |
11/12/99 |
| Philip Morris USA Notes Final Approval of Master Settlement Agreement |
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 12, 1999-- Last year Philip Morris USA and other major tobacco companies entered into a comprehensive settlement with the Attorneys General of forty-six states and five territories. This agreement fundamentally changes |
11/12/99 |
| Virginia Okay Triggers U.S. Tobacco Payouts |
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - The state of Virginia finalized its acceptance of the 6 billion national tobacco settlement on Friday, clearing the way for payments to begin under the pact nationwide, state attorneys general said. |
11/12/99 |
| Tobacco Co. Attacks 'The Insider' |
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A big cigarette maker is taking on Walt Disney, saying its new docudrama movie ``The Insider'' about a tobacco industry whistleblower maliciously distorts the truth. |
11/12/99 |
| Groups say tobacco lobbyists may have flouted state law |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) A tobacco company strategy memo which may or may not exist has become the latest focus of anti-tobacco forces in Albany and their campaign to toughen New York's lobbying laws. |
11/11/99 |
| The Boston Globe Will No Longer Accept Tobacco Product Advertisements |
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1999--The Boston Globe said today that it will no longer accept or carry advertisements that promote tobacco products or smoking. The new policy is effective immediately for the pages of the Globe newspaper, and January 1 |
11/11/99 |
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