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Smoking cessation group focusing on Latino community |
CENTRAL FALLS -- Among smoking cessation programs, not many are culturally tailored for Latinos. |
09/14/01 |
Input Sought On Tobacco Fund Spending |
TULSA, Okla. -- Four organizations want the board governing Oklahoma's tobacco settlement trust to spend its funds on tobacco use prevention and cessation. |
09/14/01 |
Tobacco Companies Fight W.V. Suit |
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) - A class-action lawsuit against four tobacco companies is on hold until at least Monday while some involved wait to hear from family and associates who were in New York when two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center. |
09/12/01 |
Terror attacks suspend tobacco trial until next week |
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) -- A class-action lawsuit against four tobacco companies is on hold until at least Monday while some involved wait to hear from family and associates who were in New York when two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center. |
09/12/01 |
Three tobacco companies prepare marketing curbs ahead of U.N. treaty |
Sept. 11 — The three largest multinational tobacco companies, under mounting pressure from governments world-wide, plan to announce Tuesday they will curtail some of their global advertising and marketing practices. |
09/11/01 |
Tobacco suit in W.Va. seeks millions for tests |
A jury in Wheeling, W. Va., is scheduled to hear opening arguments today in a class-action lawsuit that asks tobacco companies to pay several hundred million dollars to provide medical monitoring for the state's 250,000 smokers. |
09/10/01 |
British Firm Tests World's First Nicotine Vaccine |
LONDON (Reuters) - A British biotechnology company, already developing a vaccine to help addicts kick cocaine, said on Monday it had started clinical trials on the world's first nicotine addiction vaccine. |
09/09/01 |
Smoking ban constitutional, judge says |
It was an unlucky morning for Lucky John's bars Friday, when a superior court judge changed his mind about an earlier ruling and said a statewide smoking ban appears to be constitutional. |
09/08/01 |
Tobacco Fee Arbitration Panel Announces Michigan Decision |
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tobacco Fee Arbitration Panel announced today a decision regarding attorneys' fees for outside counsel retained by the State of Michigan in the 1998 state tobacco litigation settlement. |
09/07/01 |
Georgia Gov. Urges Tobacco Money Go to Health Care |
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes on Friday called on state governments to use money from tobacco lawsuit settlements to improve the nation's health care system and help fund cancer prevention and treatment programs. |
09/07/01 |
Michigan lawyers awarded 0 mln in tobacco case |
NEW YORK, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Attorneys who represented the state of Michigan as part of a nationwide legal battle with the tobacco industry should receive 0 million in fees, an arbitration panel said on Friday, though one panel member called the award |
09/07/01 |