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Despite the current climate, there are still a few people in Washington who have a nodding familiarity with tobacco...
Indicted ex-Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski is a connoisseur of spirits, tobacco and Brobdingnagian steaks. Now those who may have profited from his appetites are returning the favor, as this selective list of contributors to his defense fund shows...
Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler charged that a major tobacco firm secretly developed a high-nicotine tobacco and has started using it in its Richland, Viceroy and Raleigh brand cigarettes. Kessler told a congressional panel that Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. had told its researchers to lie to the FDA about the secret tobacco, known as Y-1, which Kessler says was grown in Brazil and distributed throughout the U.S. last year. Two shipping invoices aside, the House had to take Kessler's word for it, as he chose to keep all sources confidential. Tobacco company officials...
Michael A. Miles, CEO of Philip Morris --the world's largest tobacco company -- resigned after six years on the job, in a move that stock traders say underscores the consumer products giant's commitment to cigarette production. Nonsmoker Miles' plan to separate the embattled tobacco branch from the rest of the company looks unlikely, and company executives are preparing to shore up their image on Wall Street. The stock has been on a long, downward slide over the last decade...
Opening a new front in the flaring smoking war, Mississippi filed suit against the nation's tobacco companies to obtain reimbursement for the money it pays, through Medicaid and other health programs, to treat patients with smoking- related diseases. Mississippi's assault was quickly followed by Florida, whose Governor signed a law enabling it to file lawsuits against cigarette makers on behalf of Medicaid patients...