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6/21/2006 10:44:00 AM | Smokeless Tobacco: No Chewing, No Spitting, and Fewer Cancer ... 
=(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 =(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 =(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 =(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 =(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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3/28/2006 1:12:00 PM | Tobacco groups win ruling over $6.5bn settlement =(0) An arbitrator's ruling went in favour of major tobacco companies, allowing them to cut over $1 billion from the $6.5 billion due to 46 states in April. The ruling is based on the decline in cigarette sales overall, and over and above that, the decline in market share of these major companies compared to small companies that are not part of the 1998...
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3/22/2006 7:11:00 AM | Tobacco giant offers beer, cigarettes for signing petition =(0) Tobacco Company RJ Reynolds was criticized for its tactics to draw signatures to a petition against raising the cigarette tax in South Carolina. The company gave away free beer or cigarettes in exchange for signatures at a bar in West Columbia SC. The tax increase is intended to provide health care funding for uninsured residents. ......
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3/21/2006 7:40:00 AM | High court lets stand $50 million award to late smoker's family =(0) The US Supreme Court has let stand a $50 million judgement against Philip Morris USA. The plainiffs are the family of a cancer victim who died at 57 after being unable to stop smoking. He ultimately switched to "light" cigarettes in the belief they were safer. The Supreme Court had been asked to reconsider the amount of the judegement which had alr...
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3/15/2006 11:39:00 AM | Georgia Supreme Court Ruling Seen Aiding Tobacco Cos >RAI =(0) A Georgia Supreme Court Ruling is seen as an important precedent for a pending Florida case. The Georgia court ruled that a settlement in 1998 precluded state residents from pursuing additonal lawsuits for punitive damages for tobacco use. However the suit is still active in Federal court.............
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3/15/2006 12:19:00 AM | Georgia Supreme Court Bars Punitive Damages From Individual =(0) RJ Reynolds Tobacco, the second largest tobacco company in the US, stands to benefit from a Georgia court ruling that prevents Georgia residents from pursuing punitive damages from companies that signed the tobacco settlement agreement in 1998. The suit in question, by the family of a lung cancer victim, does return to federal court.......
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2/28/2006 10:07:00 AM | Ill. considering safe cigarette law =(0) The State of Illinois is considering a law that would force all cigarettes sold there to be "fire safe", that is, they would extinguish if left alone for 90 seconds. Such laws already exist in New York, California and Vermont. Fire safety experts groups support such laws but a spokesman for the tobacco company RJ Reynolds said that it would cause c...
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2/26/2006 2:13:00 AM | Reynolds likes the problems cash brings =(0) This article discusses the liquidity of Reynolds American, the parent company of RJ Reynolds Tobacco. Even though the company generates a high cash flow and has more cash than debt, its bonds are are rated below investment grade because of litigation worries. Two cases in particular are pending, one in Florida and one by the US Government alleging ...
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