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| British Government To Probe BAT |
LONDON (AP) - The government announced Monday that it will launch an investigation into allegations that British American Tobacco, the world's second-largest publicy traded tobacco company, orchestrated the smuggling of cigarettes. |
10/30/00 |
| Smoker Dies Before Verdict |
OSLO, Norway (AP) - The first Norwegian smoker to sue the tobacco industry for compensation died as a result of cancer this weekend before learning the verdict in his case. |
10/30/00 |
| Korea to open up tobacco industry to foreign interest |
Seoul--Oct. 27--South Korea is proposing to deregulate its tobacco industry, currently monopolized by the state-run Korea Tobacco and Ginseng Corporation, to allow foreign companies to produce tobacco products in Korea, the Ministry of Finance and Economy |
10/30/00 |
| Supreme Court turns away challenge to tobacco settlement |
WASHINGTON (October 30, 2000 10:26 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to the two-year-old national tobacco settlement. The court refused to consider whether smokers wound up paying illegally high |
10/30/00 |
| Most Residents Oppose Using Tobacco Windfall to Pay Debt |
By a comfortable 10% margin, county residents favor spending most of the million expected from tobacco settlement funds on health care rather than doling part of it out to pay down the county's lingering bankruptcy debt, according to a poll released T |
10/27/00 |
| State brandishes 2 new weapons in war on smoking |
Smokers, especially young adults, who want to kick the habit can get free help in New Jersey by calling a new hot line or using the Internet, Governor Whitman said Thursday. |
10/27/00 |
| Health Board considers price of smoking ban |
EUREKA SPRINGS -- Smokers can keep puffing away in Arkansas restaurants until at least April. |
10/27/00 |
| Smoke-free law is helping business |
LOS ANGELES -- The number of bars complying with California's smoke-free workplace law has risen dramatically and, rather than losing business as some feared, revenue has increased since the 1998 cigarette ban. |
10/27/00 |
| Tobacco buyout could saddle U.S. with tons of unwanted leaf |
A congressional bailout of North Carolina and Kentucky tobacco growers could leave the federal government holding hundreds of millions of pounds of tobacco that cigarette companies don't want and the government can't sell. |
10/26/00 |
| Law bans Web sale of tobacco to minors |
In the on-going battle against teenage smoking, Rhode Island has made it a little tougher for minors to buy cigarettes. |
10/26/00 |
| Supervisors initially approve measure on tobacco lawsuit funds |
An ordinance locking in the county's tobacco lawsuit settlement millions for health-care services was given initial approval Tuesday by a unanimous Board of Supervisors. |
10/25/00 |
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