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...year on his "roof," from paying off the local police precinct to buying the higher-up connections in the militia and the FSB (the main successor organization to the KGB). Since he has to spend another $500,000 a year to protect his other bar, the quieter Chesterfield's, Steele loses 10 to 20 percent of his annual profits just to the "interests...
...wonder LeBow gleefully handed out smoking guns as if they were product samples. The smallest U.S. cigarette maker, whose brands include Chesterfield, L&M and Eve, admitted what just about everyone outside the industry long held as fact: that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema. In another affirmation of the obvious, Liggett acknowledged that nicotine is an addictive substance. That refuted the sworn denials that seven industry leaders, including a Liggett representative, made before Congress in 1994. Says LeBow of the thinking behind last week's confessions: "It was a business, a moral and a personal decision...
...news that Liggett Group decided to settle lawsuits with 22 states by agreeing to admit that cigarette smoking is addictive depended very much on where in the morass of tobacco litigation you currently sat. States Attorneys General pointed to the fact that the North Carolina-based maker of Chesterfield, Lark and L&M cigarettes agreed to up-front payments of about $25 million, plus 2.5 percent of its pretax profits over the next 25 years, as evidence that tobacco companies are in some way responsible for the health-care costs states are suing to recover. And the fact that Liggett...
BORN: Jan. 28, 1932, Chesterfield County EDUCATION: Georgetown U, B.A., 1952 FAMILY: Wife, Mary Kelley; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Navy, 1952-55 OCCUPATION: Funeral director POLITICAL CAREER: Richmond city council, 1968-77, vice mayor, 1968-70, mayor, 1970-77; U.S. House, 1980- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 17095, Richmond...
...backlash to the antismoking movement, some smokers have taken to celebrating their indulgence, at least in the presence of their like-minded comrades. In Palm Beach, Florida, the tony Chesterfield hotel holds monthly cigar nights; the restaurant closes to the public, then invites cigar smokers, for $125 a person, to a black-tie evening of cocktails, a five-course meal and all the cigars they can smoke. It is just one of dozens of such cloudy gatherings that are organized coast to coast each month. Gordon Mott, managing editor of Cigar Aficionado magazine, calls them "the speakeasies...