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6/21/2006 10:44:00 AM | Smokeless Tobacco: No Chewing, No Spitting, and Fewer Cancer ...
Comments:(0) Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds are both testing a smokeless tobacco product that would help those addicted to nicotine get around the public bans on smoking that more and more communities are enacting. These are not the chewing and spitting kinds of tobacco, but a neat pouch held against the gums. Nicotine is absorbed and while the effect is sa...
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6/14/2006 6:06:00 PM | Tobacco companies ask judge to dismiss Medicare lawsuit
Comments:(0) Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. are among six tobacco companies named as defendants in a lawsuit by United Seniors Association Inc. which seeks to have the companies reimburse Medicare for its disbursements for smoking-related illnesses since 1999. United Seniors is a lobbying group which is attempting to pursue the lawsuit on ...
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5/16/2006 1:28:00 PM | RJ Reynolds wins smoking-death case
Comments:(0) A win for RJ Reynolds, in a smoking liability lawsuit. A US District Court in Seattle, Washington ruled that the smoker in question, whose widower filed the suit, knew the risks of smoking. The woman developed lung cancer and died in 2001, eleven years after she stopped smoking.
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5/9/2006 3:02:00 AM | RJ Reynolds to Settle State Lawsuit for $5 Million
Comments:(0) A lawsuit that has been dragging on since 1999 was finally settled by the State of California and RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. The State sued after RJ Reynolds gave away free cigarettes at public events, which is against the law in California. One-fifth of the $5 million settlement will go to the Public Health Institute, to fund anti-smoking p...
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4/23/2006 12:13:00 AM | Tennessee receives annual payment in tobacco settlement
Comments:(0) Philip Morris has completed its tobacco settlement payments to individual States for this year. Some other companies including RJ Reynolds and Lorillard Tobacco, are trying to have the payments reduced because of lower sales, but some states are suing for their full payments. The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement was signed in 1998....
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