| Title | Intro | Date |
| Philip Morris Shares Fall On Comments |
Shares of Philip Morris Cos. Inc. slipped more than 3 percent Wednesday after the world's largest tobacco company acknowledged for the first time that smoking causes a number of lethal diseases. |
10/14/99 |
| Racial Differences in the Treatment of Early-Stage Lung Cancer |
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10/14/99 |
| Blacks Lose Out On Lung Cancer Surgery-Study |
U.S. blacks are far less likely than whites to undergo surgery for lung cancer and the result is 44 unnecessary deaths for every 1,000 blacks who develop lung tumors, Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine reports. |
10/14/99 |
| 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 $1 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 |
