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| Fla. verdict may prompt new lawsuits by smokers |
For the tobacco companies that help propel key segments of the Carolinas economy, Friday's 4.8 billion punitive damage award may not be the real concern. |
07/16/00 |
| Tobacco Companies Criticized |
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Cabinet member said Sunday that the 5 billion punitive damage award against the tobacco industry shows that cigarette companies must change their practices. And the Senate's top Republican scolded them for being arrogant. |
07/16/00 |
| Tobacco Investors Unfazed by Damage Award |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The record-breaking punitive damage award handed down in the Engle sick-smokers trial raised little more than a ripple in the stock market, showing that share prices already reflected expectations of a successful appeal by the industr |
07/15/00 |
| NY Tobacco Tax Hike a 'Disaster' |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The near doubling of New York's cigarette tax to a highest-in-the-nation .11 a pack has been a disaster for small retailers, a business group says. |
07/15/00 |
| No-name lawyers make history |
After six years of legal combat, after all the criticism and skepticism, Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt -- two no-name lawyers from Miami Beach -- dangled on the brink of history, fidgeted at the threshold of the once-invincible Empire of Tobacco. |
07/15/00 |
| Tobacco jurors wanted to send message, report says |
MIAMI, July 15 (Reuters) - The jurors who slammed the tobacco industry with a 5 billion judgment for injuring Florida smokers said they did it to punish the cigarette makers for lying about the dangers of smoking for decades, a newspaper reported Satur |
07/15/00 |
| Tobacco, alcohol problems undercut U.S. children's health |
When he's not flipping pizzas in Westport, Ronald Schrader spends his summer afternoons hopping curbs on his skateboard -- until he starts coughing. |
07/14/00 |
| Big Tobacco case goes to jury today |
The attorney for Florida's sick smokers accused the nation's top cigarette makers of issuing ``death warrants to innocent people,'' and asked one final time Thursday for a 4 billion judgment against the giant tobacco industry. |
07/14/00 |
| Daily Health Minute - Smoking And Your Digestive System |
Smoking affects every part of the body, including the gastrointestinal tract. In every puff, cigarette smokers inhale more than 400 toxins and 43 known carcinogens. |
07/14/00 |
| Lawyer wants million for working 118 hours on Florida's case against tobacco companies |
Two high-profile Florida lawyers filed suit on Thursday against nationally known lawyer Alan Dershowitz, alleging he is demanding a never-promised bonus for his role in Florida's legal assault on cigarette companies. |
07/14/00 |
| 36 Ohio schools get first shot of tobacco money |
COLUMBUS - In an early round of a 12-year plan to rebuild or replace many of the state's public school buildings, the Ohio School Facilities Commission yesterday approved billion for construction in 36 school districts, including paying 80 per cent of |
07/14/00 |
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