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| Colorado to receive .6 billion in tobacco settlement |
U-WIRE) FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- The money is rolling in. The tobacco companies that negotiated a settlement of 6 billion with 46 states in 1999 have made their first payment to Colorado. |
09/07/00 |
| 2 Cigarette Makers Are Said to Discuss Settling All Smokers' Suits |
Two of the nation's major cigarette companies have been engaged in preliminary talks with plaintiffs' lawyers as part of a bid to reach a nationwide settlement of all smokers' claims against the tobacco industry, lawyers involved with the talks said yeste |
09/07/00 |
| Teen tobacco use linked to other risky behaviors |
High school students who use tobacco are more likely to engage in risky behaviors - such as drug use and unprotected sex - than students who avoid tobacco, according to a new study by a research team that included Roswell Park Cancer Institute. |
09/07/00 |
| Combined Tobacco Suits Sought |
NEW YORK (AP) - Lawyers for plaintiffs in 10 lawsuits against Big Tobacco have asked a federal judge to consolidate all punitive damage cases into a nationwide class-action suit. |
09/07/00 |
| Medicare: Smokers Not Told To Quit |
ATLANTA -- Nearly 30 percent of Medicare recipients who see managed-care physicians and smoke are not being urged to quit, the government said Thursday. |
09/07/00 |
| More flight attendants meet deadline to sue over secondhand smoke |
MIAMI -- Hundreds more nonsmoking flight attendants who blame secondhand smoke in airliners for their respiratory and other illnesses met a deadline Thursday for filing personal injury lawsuits. |
09/07/00 |
| Smoke-free policies may help, not hinder business |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Predictions that passing smoke-free restaurant legislation would represent the economic kiss of death for the restaurant industry have proved unfounded, according to a recent study conducted at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute |
09/06/00 |
| State’s high court to hear tobacco appeal |
JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri State Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in a case that has blocked Missouri from getting its estimated .7 billion share of the national tobacco settlement. |
09/06/00 |
| Tobacco stance could help, hurt candidates |
LOUISVILLE - In presidential politics in Kentucky, how to play the tobacco card has become central as the race tightens. |
09/06/00 |
| CDC Embarks on Youth Initiative |
NEW YORK -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has approached agencies about a new assignment that targets preteens. The goal is to prevent high-risk behavior, including smoking and drugs, the CDC confirmed. Billings are estimated at more than |
09/05/00 |
| Tobacco Companies Win Dismissal of Two Union Funds Lawsuits |
New York, Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Philip Morris Cos., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. and other U.S. tobacco companies won dismissal of a lawsuit by a union trust fund that sought to recover money spent treating smoking-related illnesses, Philip Morris |
09/05/00 |
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