Word: tobacco
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...representative of the tobacco industry claimed that the subpoena should not be overly difficult to fulfill...
...subpoena is very narrowly tailored,” said John Sorrells, a spokesperson for Phillip Morris, one of the tobacco companies sued by the government...
...University recently rebuffed the efforts of the tobacco industry to subpoena a half-century of Harvard research records...
However, the subpoena is part of the tobacco industry’s defense efforts against the ongoing lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in the fall of 1999. The suit seeks billions of dollars in damages from the companies to reimburse the government for its expenditures on smoking-related health care costs...
Until the money is made available, some states are taking matters into their own hands. Nebraska passed legislation last September to improve its public-health system, earmarking $6 million from its share of the national tobacco settlement to establish five new health departments that cover 19 of the state's 93 counties. Texas is relying on revenue from the state's telecommunications fund to wire itself for the Health Alert Network. Georgia, which had been given CDC grants to fight such problems as West Nile virus and emerging infections, decided that the best way to do that was to hire...