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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Where you stood on the 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...
...companies were close to settling all of the suits brought by 21 states to recover Medicaid costs associated with smoking. But both the companies and the states deny that they are anywhere close to a comprehensive settlement. "There have been discussions about settlements with individual companies, most notably the Liggett Group," said Chris DeWitt, a spokesman for the Michigan attorney general's office. "But I have no information that there is any talk yet about a global settlement." Bloomberg News, quoting sources involved in the negotiations, had reported that the companies were attempting to settle the suits for as much...
...companies were close to settling all of the suits brought by 21 states to recover Medicaid costs associated with smoking. But both the companies and the states deny that they are anywhere close to a comprehensive settlement. "There have been discussions about settlements with individual companies, most notably the Liggett Group," said Chris DeWitt, a spokesman for the Michigan attorney general's office. "But I have no information that there is any talk yet about a global settlement." Bloomberg News, quoting sources involved in the negotiations, had reported that the companies were attempting to settle the suits for as much...
Tobacco companies took several hard hits, but it did not matter. Richard Kluger's Ashes to Ashes, a comprehensive condemnation of the industry, was published. Liggett and Meyers settled a lawsuit--the first time ever for a tobacco company. A former Brown & Williamson executive turned whistle-blower. The life of Victor Crawford, a former tobacco lobbyist, came to an end from cancer of the throat after he used his final years valiantly lecturing about the evils of smoking. Science proved the direct link between smoking and lung cancer. The end result of such events was that smoking increased among children...
Last Dance (written by Ron Koslow and Steven Haft) is also akin to Dead Man Walking, with Stone as the grizzled con and Rob Morrow in the Sister Helen Prejean role. Cindy Liggett has spent 12 years on death row for a double murder she committed while on drugs; hope, for her, is the one hallucinogen not worth tasting. But Rick Hayes, a lawyer from the state clemency board, becomes convinced that her case has merit--and falls a little in love with her. Why not? This wretched killer is, after all, Sharon Stone...