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| U.S. District Court in New York Dismisses Tobacco Suit |
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation released the following statement regarding a decision by the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York dismissing claims by an asbestos company trust seeking to r |
11/02/99 |
| Tobacco Lawyers Try Old Defense |
MIAMI (AP) -- Facing a potentially crippling damage verdict, tobacco industry attorneys on Tuesday tried an old defense: smokers knew the dangers and could have quit, and their cancers may not have been caused by smoking. |
11/02/99 |
| FOCUS-Retail investors shun NYC tobacco bond deal |
NEW YORK, Nov 2 (Reuters) - There was smoke but little fire Tuesday as New York City tried to sell retail investors a first-of-its-kind bond deal backed by revenues from the national tobacco settlement. |
11/02/99 |
| Key Case in Tobacco Wars in Fla. |
A jury that has already decided that cigarette smoking causes cancer and other diseases must now put a price tag on the pain and suffering of half a million sick Florida smokers. |
11/01/99 |
| Penalty phase opens in Florida sick-smokers case |
MIAMI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - With hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, lawyers for sick smokers and Big Tobacco returned to court on Monday to determine how stiff a penalty cigarette makers should pay to as many as a million Florida smokers whose illness |
11/01/99 |
| U.S. Tobacco stocks fall as trial gets underway |
NEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Nervous investors pushed U.S. tobacco stock prices down on Monday as the penalty phase in the landmark Florida sick-smokers case got underway in Miami with potentially hundreds of billions of dollars at stake. |
11/01/99 |
| Virginia's Tobacco Farmers Eligible for Payments |
RICHMOND, Nov. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Virginia Tobacco Trust Certification Board Inc. announced today that Chase Manhattan Bank
has mailed more than 17,500 applications to the operators of Virginia's tobacco farms. |
11/01/99 |
| Drought Takes Toll in Tennessee |
Tennessee farmers are struggling to recover from a summer drought that has cut the state soybean crop nearly in half and severely damaged the yields of cotton, hay and tobacco. |
10/29/99 |
| Tobacco Cos. Block British Ad Ban |
Tobacco companies won a court order Friday to prevent the government from banning advertising. |
10/29/99 |
| WHO Wraps Up Anti-Tobacco Talks |
Health experts from more than 100 countries wrapped up preliminary talks on an anti-tobacco treaty Friday, saying they were on course toward a plan to cut smoking and stem a rising death toll. |
10/29/99 |
| AAHP Honors Health Plans for Achievements in Quality; Honorees Recognized During AAHP's Annual Quality Conference |
Today, the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP) announced its annual awards for quality innovations in the areas of immunization, disease management, tobacco control, and quality improvement. Health plans throughout the country take part in the ann |
10/28/99 |
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