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| Bill sets tobacco contract inquiry |
FRANKFORT - A watered-down version of a bill that would have regulated contracting between farmers and cigarette manufacturers won approval from a House-Senate conference committee yesterday. The compromise legislation now calls for a yearlong study of co |
04/11/00 |
| Schools Teach How Not to Smoke |
SAN JOSE, Calif. - It's Kick the Habit 101. |
04/11/00 |
| Wording of Measure on Tobacco Funds OKd |
Ventura County attorneys on Friday approved the title and wording of a proposed ballot initiative that would divert the county's 0-million tobacco settlement revenue to private health care providers, clearing the way for Community Memorial Hospital to |
04/10/00 |
| Senate votes again to keep lawyers from getting part of tobacco money |
For the second time this legislative session, the Illinois Senate approved a bill Friday to prevent lawyers from taking a portion of the state's tobacco settlement funds. |
04/10/00 |
| Spending set from tobacco suit |
Skin cancer screenings for Eastern Shore watermen. Russian-language newspaper ads urging emigres to give up their cigarettes. And Internet wiring of public schools around the state. |
04/10/00 |
| Tobacco investors survive courtroom heat |
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Tobacco companies were handed yet another loss in a Florida courtroom Friday, but stocks barely budged. |
04/10/00 |
| S&P comments on possible risks from tobacco suits |
NEW YORK, April 10 - The recent Florida jury verdict in the Engle class-action trial, which ordered tobacco defendants to pay .9 million in compensatory damages to two plaintiffs chosen to represent the class, represents another legal setback for the to |
04/10/00 |
| Study: Smokers Face Heart Risk |
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Smokers who carry a gene already linked to smoking-related illnesses face about twice the risk of heart disease than smokers who don't carry it, researchers suggest. |
04/07/00 |
| American Lung Association of Minnesota Commends Moose Lake on State's First Smoke Free Restaurant Ordinance |
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- It was a tough issue for the City of Moose Lake, but the Council voted 3 to 1 on April 5th to become the first city in Minnesota to ban smoking in public restaurants. In the end the main issue was the negative effe |
04/07/00 |
| 0 Billion Punitive Damages Award Figure Is a Tobacco Industry Ruse Designed To Scare States Into Enacting Special Legal Protections, Says TPLP |
BOSTON, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tobacco Products Liability Project has issued the following statement:
For several weeks, a furor has been building in Florida and beyond over the possibility of a Miami jury awarding lump sum punitive damages of |
04/07/00 |
| Williams Proposes Bonds Backed by Tobacco Funds |
D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams is proposing to sell bonds backed by the District's share of the national tobacco settlement that would bring in about 5 million to help slash the city's debt costs and pay for health, education and family programs for mo |
04/07/00 |
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