Word: tobacco
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...YORK CITY: Investors sent tobacco stocks higher Tuesday, on reports that major tobacco 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...
GREENSBORO, North Carolina: Fighting for the future of an industry under increasing fire, the nation's largest tobacco companies began arguments in a lawsuit designed to prevent the FDA from regulating tobacco as a drug. Lawyers for R.J. Reynolds, Phillip Morris and a number of other tobacco companies were in court to block new FDA rules, scheduled to go take effect on February 28, that would severely limit cigarette advertising aimed at teenagers. Terming the FDA restrictions a violation of the First Amendment and a prime case of federal overreach, lawyers want Judge William Osteen, a onetime tobacco industry lobbyist...
CHICAGO: As anyone wrestling with nicotine addiction knows, that first day can seem an eternity. Now, researchers studying the effectiveness of the nicotine patch are placing odds on whether your first tobacco-free 24 hours will really last forever. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center studied 200 smokers who buttressed their "quit day" by starting on a nicotine patch program. Those who broke down and cheated that first day were "10 times more likely to be smoking" in the long run, said one of the researchers, Dr. Eric Westman of Durham, N.C. "This...
...collection of Merrill C. Berman '60, who himself must have an interesting tale to tell about the amalgamation of such an impressive display of early Soviet propaganda. Each gallery houses prints and posters--the cheap, bold media used alike by Moscow government bureaucrats, provincial factory managers, collective developers and tobacco manufacturing firms to push their (distinct) messages upon the population at large...
...development that greatly affected the painting of J.M.W. Turner. Likewise, the Impressionists made generous use of the new blues and greens that emerged in their day. In this century, novelty gave way to marketing as manufacturers came to shape public tastes in color. In 1934, for instance, the American Tobacco Co. found that women wouldn't buy Lucky Strikes because the then green box clashed with their clothes. The solution: make green hot. In short order, the company set up a "color-fashion bureau," underwrote a green-themed society ball, enlisted magazine editors and bought off French couture houses...