The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by tobacco companies to consider making it harder for smokers to prove they were misled by the industry.
When Americans think of Sweden, they tend to envision boxy blue Ikea stores or blonds in bikinis. North Carolina-based giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco is hoping to add another item to that list: snus (...
They want you to laugh, to wince, to think. Just not to smoke. They're the "Truth" campaign ads - radio, television, and web spots that target kids at greatest risk for smoking.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by tobacco companies to consider making it harder for smokers to prove they were misled by the industry.
When Americans think of Sweden, they tend to envision boxy blue Ikea stores or blonds in bikinis. North Carolina-based giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco is hoping to add another item to that list: snus (...
They want you to laugh, to wince, to think. Just not to smoke. They're the "Truth" campaign ads - radio, television, and web spots that target kids at greatest risk for smoking.
The Justice Department appealed Monday to the Supreme Court a lower court ruling that prevents the government from seeking up to $280 billion in tobacco industry profits from an alleged conspiracy to hide the dangers of smoking.
In a 2-to-1 ruling, a U.S. federal appeals court panel in Washington Friday rejected the federal government's lawsuit seeking as much as $280 billion in past earnings from tobacco companies that allegedly engaged in a criminal enterprise to cover up smoking dangers.
The tobacco industry has defended itself against charges in the United States that it engaged in a 50-year conspiracy to defraud the American public about the health risks of tobacco.
U.S. stock markets were barely changed early Wednesday as worries about next week's expected interest rate hike and transfer of power in Iraq trumped any glee about upbeat corporate news.
U.S. stocks headed toward a lower opening Wednesday amid continuing concern about a strike in No. 3 oil exporter Norway, but the return of flows through a damaged Iraqi pipeline tempered the fears of a shortage.
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On the northwest coast of the continent, among the forested inlets above Vancouver, British Columbia, there lives a tribe of Native Americans called the Kwakiutl. While nowadays much reduced in num...
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