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| Control of tobacco money still undecided |
FRANKFORT - Negotiations on the issue of who will control a pot of money to help farmers and agriculture communities have been delayed. |
03/31/00 |
| House approves plan for tobacco money |
MONTPELIER - The Vermont House on Thursday overwhelmingly - but reluctantly - approved a plan to spend about one-third of the state's tobacco money on programs to keep young people from smoking and to get smokers to quit. |
03/31/00 |
| Tobacco Lawyer Makes Pitch to Jury |
MIAMI (AP) - Three sick smokers shouldn't be paid for smoking after the health dangers of cigarettes became a recognized part of American culture, a tobacco attorney charged in fighting their .4 million damage claim. |
03/31/00 |
| Ark. Gov calls special session on tobacco money |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 31 (Reuters) - The Arkansas Legislature will meet in a special session on Monday to decide how to spend the state's share of the national tobacco settlement, estimated at about .6 billion over 25 years. |
03/31/00 |
| Fla. Smokers Seek Compensation |
MIAMI (AP) - Jurors have only heard half of the story on a request for .4 million in compensatory damages by three smokers suing the nation's biggest cigarette makers, a tobacco attorney says. |
03/30/00 |
| Tobacco Industry Influence Alive and Well: NGOs Criticize US Position on Global Tobacco Treaty |
GENEVA, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- At a World Health Organization meeting this week to discuss a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, NGOs from around the world sharply criticized the US and other governments advocating for a weak treaty. INFACT, a US-b |
03/30/00 |
| N.Y. Hospitals Sue Tobacco Companies to Recoup Funds |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of 145 New York hospitals including Manhattan's famous Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center filed a .4 billion lawsuit against major tobacco companies on Thursday to recoup funds spent on sick smokers. |
03/30/00 |
| Legislative session on tobacco cash may come soon |
A special legislative session on spending the state's tobacco settlement money may happen as soon as next week, Gov. Mike Huckabee said Tuesday. |
03/29/00 |
| Group Seeks to Renew Talks on Tobacco Funds |
A health coalition seeking to break a stalemate with Orange County supervisors over how to spend the county's 0-million share of a national tobacco settlement has asked board members to appoint a negotiation subcommittee. |
03/29/00 |
| House OKs million tobacco bill |
AUGUSTA - The House of Representatives gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a bill that would spend more than million in tobacco-settlement money on a range of social services, including health insurance for more than 10,000 uninsured working adults a |
03/29/00 |
| UST Faces 0 Million Damages in Suit |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Kentucky jury has ordered top chewing tobacco maker U.S. Tobacco Co. to pay 0 million in damages to rival Conwood Co. in a federal antitrust suit over U.S. Tobacco's marketing tactics, UST said on Wednesday. |
03/29/00 |
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