| Title | Intro | Date |
| Philip Morris a sponsor of Illinois' delegation |
LOS ANGELES - Amid the list of labor unions and corporations sponsoring Illinois delegation events here, one name looks out of place: Philip Morris. |
08/17/00 |
| Village Still Wants Ban On Smoking |
Friendship Heights Mayor Alfred Muller has revived the issue by writing to County Council President Michael L. Subin, asking the panel to ratify a four-year-old proposal that would give the village one of the toughest smoking ordinances in the nation. |
08/17/00 |
| Ideological Prejudices Impede Constructive Dialogue on Tobacco and Health Policy |
New York, NY, August 2000 -- The "war on smoking" between the ideological left and right continues while hundreds of thousands of Americans are dying every day from smoking-related diseases. |
08/17/00 |
| N.Y. Might Require Safer Cigarettes |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A measure that could make New York the first state to require that all cigarettes be self-extinguishing was signed into law by Gov. George Pataki. |
08/17/00 |
| Sick smokers' interest on hold |
The interest lost daily on the record $145 billion judgment against Big Tobacco boggles the mind -- $39,726,027. |
08/16/00 |
| Smokers: Punish Tobacco for Delay |
MIAMI (AP) -- The tobacco industry is trying to manipulate the court system and should be fined $38 million a day for moving the first smokers' class-action case to federal court, smokers' attorneys said Wednesday. |
08/16/00 |
| Use of tobacco funds is debated by board |
PIKE - Wyoming County supervisors were urged to use part of the county's estimated $7.1 million in tobacco settlement proceeds for programs to reduce smoking. |
08/16/00 |
| Hearing set on whether tobacco trial should move to federal court |
A federal judge in Miami said she would hear arguments on Nov. 7 to determine whether the statewide class action case against Big Tobacco should be moved to U.S. District Court. |
08/16/00 |
| 'Fire-Safe' Cigarettes Withheld From Consumers |
THURSDAY, July 1 (HealthScout) -- Concealing research on the addictive powers of nicotine may not have been the only information the tobacco industry has been hiding. According to the latest issue of a newsletter that follows the tobacco business, New Yor |
08/15/00 |
| Co says judge finds gray market cigarettes violate U.S. law |
NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Reuters) - A judge's finding that the import of gray market cigarettes, intended for export but sold domestically, violates U.S. laws, a move that may help thwart illegal U.S. cigarette distribution, Brown & Williamson Tobacco said on Tu |
08/15/00 |
| Tight Supply May Mean Higher US Tobacco Prices This Year |
As if huge legal judgments and widespread social opprobrium weren't enough, the major cigarette companies have another issue to contend with now - rising prices for tobacco. |
08/15/00 |
| States Reach Deal With Smoking Co. |
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A company that claimed it could help people stop smoking in seven days has reached an agreement with 12 states to stop making misleading statements and pay them a total of $65,000. |
08/15/00 |
