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Highlights Advantages of State Lawsuits Over Flawed Global Deal

The industry also must remove cigarette-vending machines from any place accessible to children and remove tobacco advertising in sports arenas and on public buses and trains ...
Lawton Chiles insisted be part of any deal to resolve the suit, which was about to go to trial ...
The Florida settlement came in the fourth week of jury selection in the case, and less than a week after the chief executives of tobacco giants Philip Morris and R ...
It also shows how reluctant the industry is to have the truth about the lethal dangers of tobacco come out in a court ...
The settlement is compensation for money Florida spent treating sick smokers and punitive damages for the industry's allegedly fraudulent conduct ...

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Wants Big Tobacco to Run Ads Admitting They Misled Smokers

Mr Samuel will also decide in the next few weeks whether the ACCC will launch legal action against cigarette makers for alleged past deceptive and misleading conduct over the issue - potentially starting one of the biggest compensation cases in Australian history ...
3 billion over 25 years to settle the state's massive suit against the industry--one of the largest court-approved settlements in U ...
The industry, meanwhile, avoided the massive negative publicity generated by a trial that would have opened up 40 years of damaging internal documents to a jury in a case that was set to be televised live while Congress and the White House were considering the national deal ...

Korea Will Ratify the FCTC in June '05

If the treaty gets the nod from the Assembly, the government will work on consolidating anti-smoking campaigns ...
If taxes are imposed, prices will increase to over 2,000 won a pack, similar to those in the market ...
Lee said there will be no major obstacles for the ratification by June as related laws are expected to need ...
It raised the price of cigarettes last December by 500 won a pack, which resulted in an estimated 8 ...
Ireland has started a total ban on smoking at bars and all public places, while the state of New York in the United States has declared all bars, restaurants and public venues as smoke-free zones ...

Why Teenagers Smoke, and Quit

It also requires nations that ratify the treaty print messages warning of tobacco's harm on more than 30 percent of the surface of a cigarette packet ...
The companies pledged to remove all their billboards near schools and playgrounds within 45 days and all billboards in the state within five months ...
The adoption of the pact will provide us with the legal basis to launch stronger measures to cut the number of smokers ...

Truth TV Ads Continue to Successfully Educate Teens on the Dangers of Smoking

Moreover, the companies agreed, in writing, to assist Florida in enacting new laws designed to keep children from smoking ...
If taxes are imposed, prices will increase to over 2,000 won a pack, similar to those in the market ...
Countries, especially those that have ratified the international treaty, have set out more aggressive anti-tobacco policies ...
The goal of the American Legacy Foundation, which uses selling tactics similar to those used by consumer marketers, is to sell teens on not smoking cigarettes ...
The settlement is compensation for money Florida spent treating sick smokers and punitive damages for the industry's allegedly fraudulent conduct ...

UK: Secondhand Smoke in the Workplace Kills Hundreds Per Year

If the smoking ratios don't decrease, spending some 6 trillion won to reduce air pollution will not be helpful in improving people's health,'' Kwak said ...
Professor Konrad Jamrozik looked at the number of people who died from lung cancer, heart disease and stroke in England and Wales in 2002 ...
This is despite calls to do so from the chief medical officers of England and Scotland ...

Big Tobacco Faces More Legal Battles

The settlement is compensation for money Florida spent treating sick smokers and punitive damages for the industry's allegedly fraudulent conduct ...
3 percent of male smokers quitting the habit, according to the health authority ...
Ireland has started a total ban on smoking at bars and all public places, while the state of New York in the United States has declared all bars, restaurants and public venues as smoke-free zones ...
Altria Chief Executive Louis Camilleri has indicated that the company won't consider a breakup until the multibillion-dollar litigation risks facing Philip Morris become benign ...

MA Tries to Halt Sales of New Flavored Cigarettes

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission wants tobacco companies to run advertisements admitting they may have misled and deceived smokers by using the words mild and light on cigarette packets ...
Professor Carol Black, president of the Royal College of Physicians, urged the government to ban smoking in workplaces ...
and British American Tobacco PLC's Brown Sweet-flavored cigarettes -- one of the hottest new product categories in the tobacco industry -- are leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of Massachusetts's regulators ...

British Columbia Seeks $10 Billion in Health Care Costs from Tobacco Companies

Canadian tobacco companies can't afford to pay huge legal settlements, Laundy said ...
It alleges tobacco manufacturers failed to warn consumers of the dangers of smoking, marked light cigarettes as safe and targeted children in their advertising and marketing ...
He said the government is in danger of spending millions of dollars on a lawsuit and not receiving any money ...

U.S. Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

The lucrative trafficking of cigarettes , known as cigarette diversion, is a simple scheme but difficult to stop, law enforcement officials say ...
The world has stepped up an anti-smoking campaign since the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) by the ...
Anti-smoking campaigns will be delivered via different media, while free consultation and treatment will be offered to smokers, especially ...
counterparts, who have been ordered to pay hundreds of millions, he said ...
State officials say the products, with names like Midnight Berry, Mocha Taboo and Mandarin Mint, represent a calculated attempt by tobacco companies to boost market shares by appealing to teenagers and possibly getting them ...