Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tobacco Under the Hot Lights A minor sting by Justice is making the Big Five very nervous. Now, a lot of lawyers for Big Tobacco are going back on the clock...
WASHINGTON: The Big Five tobacco companies are a wary cartel: always in competition but still bound together, in charge of the same pot of gold. Now one of them is going under the hot lights, giving them all a new reason to be nervous. Brown & Williamson Tobacco was the "unindicted co-conspirator" in the guilty plea Wednesday of a California biotech firm called DNAP, which was convicted of breeding high-nicotine tobacco plants (illegal under U.S. law) and smuggling seeds out of the country to be farmed in Brazil...
...Tardiest Admission Thirty-three years after the Surgeon General first issued his warning, a cigarette company admitted that smoking causes cancer. As part of a legal settlement, the comparatively small Liggett Group also conceded that tobacco companies have aimed pitches at teenagers--a charge its bigger brethren still deny...
...more concerned about, though, is Wednesday?s New York Times report that state attorneys general have been meeting in secret to consider their own antitrust lawsuits. Throw in government investigations in Europe and a possible Senate hearing, and you have a similar scenario to the one that bled the tobacco giants. Did somebody say "timber...
Condon has been selective in his campaign. No woman has been arrested for putting a baby at risk by alcohol consumption or tobacco use--despite the fact that babies born with serious health problems as a result of booze and nicotine far outnumber babies born with cocaine in their systems. "I would be on a legal slippery slope if I tried to prosecute women who used legal substances," says Condon. But he is warning social workers and drug-abuse counselors that they too could be prosecuted and jailed if they fail to turn in pregnant women found...