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Assistant Professor of Law Jon D. Hanson will host a day-long conference on July 31 to examine the proposed national tobacco settlement currently being considered by Congress...
Matt Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, who has, according to Hanson, played an integral role in the negotiations, will speak at the conference. Hanson is also expecting Elizabeth Cabraser, an attorney who tried the Castano class action case and David Kentoff, who represents Phillip Morris...
...elated at the empowerment of the FDA to regulate tobacco and the nicotine content of cigarettes. But, sadly, this is a step that should have been taken 50 years ago, when Bogie and Bacall first made smoking the chic way to die. SARAH ANASTASIA OLYNYK, age 14 Shaker Heights, Ohio...
...tobacco companies finally do pay out those millions of dollars for the sicknesses and deaths they have caused, won't they simply deduct such payments from income as a cost of doing business? Any reduction in their taxes will have to be made up somewhere else. Guess who will end up paying: people like you and me who never touch a cigarette. BILL BLAIR Tulsa, Okla...
MIAMI: Bennett LeBow has coughed up another one of tobacco's dirty little secrets. The owner of the Liggett Group (Chesterfields, L&M, Lark, Eve), who was the first industry leader to admit to tobacco's ills when he crossed the party line in March, says he had been thinking about going public for years, and that $10 million a year from big brother Philip Morris helped keep him quiet. In 1995, with tobacco companies embroiled in a massive suit with state attorneys general, Philip Morris came knocking on the door of his financially troubled company. The larger firm said...