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| Clinton Open to Tobacco Tax Talks |
President Clinton signaled a willingness Thursday to negotiate with Republicans on a cigarette tax increase smaller than the 55 cents a pack he proposed earlier this year. |
10/14/99 |
| Lawyers say Philip Morris making Internet move on jurors |
A new Philip Morris website in which the giant cigarette maker acknowledges for the first time that smoking causes diseases was a backdoor maneuver to sway jurors in a high stakes class-action suit, anti-tobacco lawyers said on Thursday. |
10/14/99 |
| Orange Cty, Calif., to consider tobacco bond deal |
Orange County Calif., is set to consider a plan to use its share of the national tobacco settlement to retire billion in bankruptcy debt and build a new jail, a top county official said Thursday. |
10/14/99 |
| National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco Launches Defense Against the Tobacco Industry |
The only national women's coalition focused exclusively on tobacco issues says, ``No!'' The National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco, a woman-centered, multi-ethnic, intergenerational group of national women's and girls' organizations including YWCA o |
10/13/99 |
| B&W Enters a Multi-Year, Major Supply Contract With Star Scientific for Low Nitrosamine Tobacco |
Star Scientific, Inc. announces a multi-year, major contract to supply low-nitrosamine (TSNA) tobacco to Brown & Williamson, the third largest U.S. tobacco company (B&W). |
10/13/99 |
| Japan Tobacco Announces Capital Transfer to Its New Canadian Subsidiary |
Japan Tobacco Inc. Wednesday announced that on Oct. 9 it made an investment in kind by transferring subsidiary shares (equivalent to approximately 3,250 million Canadian dollars) to JT Canada LLC II (JTC II) from JT Canada LLC Inc. (JTC). |
10/13/99 |
| Economists see PPI up 0.5 percent in September |
The higher cost of tobacco, autos and intermediate and crude goods helped drive U.S. producer prices higher in September, economists said. |
10/13/99 |
| Tobacco Company Says Evidence Shows Smoking Unhealthy |
The nation's largest cigarette maker, Philip Morris Cos. Inc., has for the first time acknowledged that medical evidence points to smoking as a cause of a number of lethal diseases, including lung cancer. |
10/13/99 |
| W.House Rips Into Philip Morris Cancer Admission |
- The White House Wednesday ripped into the acknowledgment by tobacco giant Philip Morris Cos. Inc. that there is a scientific consensus that smoking causes lung cancer and other deadly diseases. |
10/13/99 |
| Clinton welcomes Philip Morris tobacco admission |
U.S. President Bill Clinton on Wednesday grudgingly welcomed Philip Morris Cos. Inc's admission that medical evidence shows smoking causes lung cancer, and said it was long overdue. |
10/13/99 |
| Teen Tobacco Law Said Not Enforced |
A 1992 law aimed at ending sales of cigarettes and other tobacco products to minors through rigorous state-level checking has not been adequately enforced, an analysis of their performance says. |
10/13/99 |
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