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...that they have drawn first blood from the tobacco empire, I wish the state attorneys general would do something more worthwhile with their time. Two weeks ago, 22 state attorneys general and the Liggett group, a cigarette manufacturer, struck a deal to resolve smokers' claims. Anti-smoking forces rejoiced because the Liggett group also agreed to surrender documents that may incriminate other, larger tobacco companies. This capitulation by Liggett is a cause for celebration, at least for those who started smoking before the government's recent war against tobacco companies...
...anti-smoking campaign made that decision fully aware of many of the dangers of cigarette smoke. For the past 24 years, "Surgeon General's Warning: Smoking is hazardous to your health" has appeared on all cigarette boxes and in cigarette ads. As adults who knew the risks associated with tobacco, smoking was their prerogative. Why should states waste time and money battling tobacco companies in the courts over smokers who made a poor, but autonomous and informed, decision...
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...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A recent string of good news for the tobacco industry ended when the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Florida law making it easier for the state to sue tobacco companies to recover Medicaid money spent on smoking-related illnesses. The decision allows Florida to proceed with a lawsuit to recoup the some $800 million the state estimates it has spent treating sick smokers since July 1994. At issue was a measure which prevents companies from arguing Medicaid patients are partially to blame for their illnesses, allows the state to bring a class action suit...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A recent string of good news for the tobacco industry ended when the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Florida law making it easier for the state to sue tobacco companies to recover Medicaid money spent on smoking-related illnesses. The decision allows Florida to proceed with a lawsuit to recoup the some $800 million the state estimates it has spent treating sick smokers since July 1994. At issue was a measure which prevents companies from arguing Medicaid patients are partially to blame for their illnesses, allows the state to bring a class action suit...