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New Evidence re Smoking in Movies

And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
Until now, little evidence has supported the theory that tobacco companies use movies as advertising vehicles ...
paid to "place" Marlboro cigarettes and signage in the first and second "Superman" movies ...

Study: Most States Get Short End of Landmark Tobacco Agreement

And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
Rather, the MSA allocates percentage shares, which are purportedly based on each state's smoking population, related health care costs and other considerations ...
The deal was structured so that smokers would have to pay this wrote Bulow ...
Twenty-nine states would have been better off passing a $4 excise tax on a carton of cigarettes rather than signing multibillion-dollar tobacco settlements, a study concludes ...

Read What the Judge Ruled, Then See The Docs Themselves

The deal was structured so that smokers would have to pay this wrote Bulow ...
Tobacco companies were expected to stall the release of the documents just as they did with the Liggett papers, Gentry said ...
Four states made separate deals in the '90s worth roughly $40 billion _ which are combined with the MSA for the purpose of the study ...
But Jeremy Bulow, the Stanford University economics professor who wrote the report, says states don't get $4 for each carton sold within their ...
said it believed the Liggett documents did not ``remotely fit the description accorded them by the plaintiffs ...

Learn Why This Session Could Be The Most Important

Acting at the suggestion of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the 10th World Conference of Tobacco OR Health has added a special session to its already crowded agenda ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
If participants wished, they could then draft a strongly-worded Conference resolution and send it to President Clinton in time to have it effect his decision ...
By far the largest of the pacts is the Master Settlement Agreement ...

Highlights Advantages of State Lawsuits Over Flawed Global Deal

Rather, the MSA allocates percentage shares, which are purportedly based on each state's smoking population, related health care costs and other considerations ...
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 ...
The Conference organizers have agreed, and the special session is now scheduled for Wednesday, August 27th ...

California: Court Seeks Tobacco Law Clarification for Sick Smoker Suits

He proposed that US leaders familiar with the deal brief conference participants on its expected impact abroad, and permit representatives from other countries to express their views ...
If the court agrees to take up the issue, its ruling Williamson Tobacco Co ...
Bulow says the settlement is really a national tax in disguise _ and one that results in many states receiving less than their fair share ...
The verdict was overturned by a state appellate court last year for reasons unrelated to the ...

Cigarette Company Considers Pulling 'Light" Label

While the Liggett documents have been the focus of media attention, Gentry said the ``youth documents'' ordered ...
Spokeswoman Sara Machir said the company will assess whether to remove the terms from its other brands -- Main Street, Sport and Gsmoke ...
The Conference organizers have agreed, and the special session is now scheduled for Wednesday, August 27th ...

Health Officials Fear that US Will not Ratify the FCTC

But Jeremy Bulow, the Stanford University economics professor who wrote the report, says states don't get $4 for each carton sold within their ...
The state Supreme Court, the highest authority on California law, has not ruled on whether a smoker's awareness of ...
Signatories are required to ban cigarette advertising -- unless their constitutions forbid such a step -- and are encouraged to increase tobacco taxes ...

FL Supreme Court to Review Reversal of $145 Billion Judgment in Smokers' Suit

But California appellate courts have rejected that ruling and allowed suits by ex-smokers who were newly diagnosed with cancer and other ...
The other plaintiff, Maria Cannata, who also started smoking as a minor in the 1960s, has terminal lung disease, the court said ...
It said Florida's participation in a multi-state settlement with the tobacco companies barred the awarding of punitive damages ...
According to HHS spokesman Bill Pierce, no schedule has been set for submitting the treaty to the Senate for ratification ...
Gentry, an attorney for the state, said: ``We know from the Liggett attorneys that they are particularly germane to the crime/fraud issue ...

NJ: After 20 Years, Epic Tobacco Lawsuit Settled

But California appellate courts have rejected that ruling and allowed suits by ex-smokers who were newly diagnosed with cancer and other ...
said it believed the Liggett documents did not ``remotely fit the description accorded them by the plaintiffs ...
Reynolds, Philip Morris and the parent company of Lorillard -- the manufacturers of other brands that Rossi smoked during his life -- as well as the Tobacco Institute, the now-defunct research arm of the cigarette makers ...