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| Holshouser and Friday Call for a Special Legislative Session |
RALEIGH, N.C., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Governor James E. Holshouser and President Emeritus of UNC Systems William C. Friday have asked Governor Hunt to call a special session of the NC General Assembly to address legislation protecting tobacco com |
03/24/00 |
| We Card Coalition Affirms Commitment to Prevent Underage Tobacco Sales, In Wake of Supreme Court's Decision Against FDA Regulation |
WASHINGTON, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coalition for Responsible Tobacco Retailing, sponsors of the national We Card program, today affirmed the commitment of its members to prevent underage tobacco sales in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision |
03/24/00 |
| Ex-Smoker's Lawyer Wants 5M |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Jurors on Friday began deliberating whether to award punitive damages against the nation's two largest tobacco companies to a dying ex-smoker. |
03/24/00 |
| Calif. Jury Still Mulling Tobacco Case |
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A jury considering punitive damages against two major tobacco companies in a lawsuit launched by a woman who developed lung cancer after smoking for 25 years ended their first day of deliberations on Friday without reaching a ver |
03/24/00 |
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MANASQUAN, N.J., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation should take some lessons from the state of California to help decrease adult smoking. California's aggressive tobacco control intervention program has resulted in a continuing decline in adult smoking, |
03/23/00 |
| Billion in Tobacco Funds Targeted for a Life Sciences Corridor; Michigan Leads the Nation in Using Settlement Funds for Health Research And Job Creation |
LANSING, Mich., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The State of Michigan has announced its plans to use billion from its tobacco settlement award to establish a world-class Life Sciences Corridor for research in biotechnology, medicine, and genetics. |
03/23/00 |
| National Tobacco Council Urges Reasonable Appeal Bonds Requirements for Punitive Damage Verdicts |
HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C., March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- North Carolina businesses involved in lawsuits with judgments in the millions and billions of dollars could face bankruptcy even before they have been able to have their appeals heard unless the current law is |
03/22/00 |
| Tobacco Issue Back in Congress |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Anti-smoking members of Congress promised to move quickly and aggressively to revive legislation after the Supreme Court ruled that current law does not allow the government to regulate tobacco. |
03/22/00 |
| Tobacco Ruling May Simply Delay the Inevitable |
The Supreme Court's ruling yesterday saved the tobacco industry from regulation imposed by the Food and Drug Administration. But the momentum for some type of federal regulation of tobacco products remains powerful, and it is not coming only from anti-tob |
03/22/00 |
| Gore advocates federal regulation of tobacco |
NEW YORK, Mar 22 (Reuters) -- Vice President Al Gore called on Texas Gov. George W. Bush and the Republican-led Congress on Tuesday to stand up to ``Big Tobacco'' and push to give the government the right to regulate nicotine as an addictive drug. |
03/22/00 |
| Big Tobacco faces bigger penalty - analyst |
NEW YORK, March 21 (Reuters) - A California jury's .7 million award to a cancer-striken ex-smoker and her husband is the industry's first loss to a plaintiff who began smoking after warning labels began appearing on cigarette packs, and it could be a pr |
03/21/00 |
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