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GOP mulls tobacco cash for tax cuts |
SPRINGFIELD--Legislative leaders Thursday began to hungrily eye the state's .1 billion tobacco settlement as an untapped pot to pay for election year tax cuts. |
04/07/00 |
Tobacco To Pay .9M to 2 Smokers |
MIAMI (AP) - A jury on Friday ordered the tobacco industry to pay two smokers .9 million, opening the door to a possible multibillion-dollar punitive verdict that cigarette makers fear could send them into bankruptcy. |
04/07/00 |
Jury Weighs Damages in Smoker Case |
MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge decided to lift a gag order in a landmark tobacco industry trial hours after a state jury began deliberating whether to award damages to three smokers with cancer. |
04/06/00 |
U.S. judge rules Northwest smoking suit may proceed |
SEATTLE, April 6 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court, reversing a lower court decision, ruled on Thursday that nonsmoking flight attendants could sue Northwest Airlines Corp. for allowing smoking on trans-Pacific flights. |
04/06/00 |
Cancer researchers hit tobacco industry campaign |
LONDON, April 7 (Reuters) - U.S. researchers accused the tobacco industry of Friday of going to ``unprecedented'' lengths to discredit the largest European study on passive smoking. |
04/06/00 |
Researchers Claim Tobacco Attack |
LONDON (AP) - A World Health Organization study investigating the effects of secondhand smoke was subjected to a campaign by the tobacco industry, which tried to ``subvert the process of science,'' researchers claim. |
04/06/00 |
Florida Jurors to Take Up Smoking Damages |
MIAMI (Reuters) - Asking jurors to send a message to the world, a lawyer pressing Florida's landmark sick-smokers case wrapped up arguments on Tuesday and set the stage for a jury to begin weighing compensatory damages in a trial that could ultimately cos |
04/05/00 |
Smoking during pregnancy linked to cleft lip |
NEW YORK, Apr 04 (Reuters Health) -- Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of having a baby with cleft lip or palate, report US researchers. |
04/05/00 |
Tobacco money agreement reached |
Gov. Tom Vilsack and Republican leaders agreed Tuesday on a million plan to spend Iowa's first installment of the national tobacco settlement, ending months of quibbling in a compromise that could pave the way for other budget negotiations. |
04/05/00 |
Smoking may increase colorectal cancer risk |
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 05 (Reuters Health) -- If the threat of lung cancer isn't enough to make you kick the habit, results of a new study suggest that smokers are at higher risk of developing intestinal polyps, which may increase colorectal cancer risk. |
04/05/00 |
Study finds closer tie for smoking, colon cancer |
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 (Reuters) - Smoking cigarettes appears more closely tied to colon cancer than previously known, U.S. government researchers said Tuesday as they announced new findings about the causes of colorectal and stomach cancer. |
04/04/00 |