Attorney General Alan Wilson announced April 27 that the state received over $81 million as part of a large tobacco settlement agreement. “These payments are incredibly important to the taxpayers of South Carolina because they mean the tobacco companies are ...

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Like the noxious vapors left behind by a passing smoker, the litigation between R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and 3,500 of its current and former employees has lingered longer than anyone would have liked. But the protracted dispute might finally be close ...

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Tobaccoville USA, Inc. v. United States Department of the Treasury (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-050-16, 10 pp.) (R. Bryan Harwell, J.) 4:16-cv-00424; D.S.C. Holding: In an ongoing administrative proceeding, plaintiff contests defendant Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau’s (TTB’s) contemplated ...

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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A jury in Florida’s Panhandle has awarded $34 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer 15 years after he quit smoking. The lawsuit filed by Garry O’Hara’s widow and children against R.J. ...

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Raising the legal age to buy tobacco to higher than 18 would likely prevent premature death for hundreds of thousands of people, according to a report issued Thursday by the Institute of Medicine. The report examines ...

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After more than a decade of litigation, a federal judge has dismissed a class action lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco that sought more than $51 million in compensation for former employees over an alleged mishandling of its 401(k) plan.

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge will soon decide whether your next tank of gas or bottle of soda comes with a free apology from the Marlboro man and Joe Camel.

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is asking a federal appeals court to rehear a challenge to a Food and Drug Administration requirement that tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages to show that smoking can disfigure and even kill people.

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A challenge by two of the nation's largest cigarette makers alleging conflicts of interest in the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel's review of tobacco products can move forward, a federal judge has ruled.

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In between hours of oral argument over the federal health care legislation, the justices took the time to deny certiorari in the first of the Florida tobacco suits to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Florida’s individual tobacco suits, known as the Engle litigation, involve separate trials held to determine if a plaintiff was addicted to cigarettes and whether that addiction caused his or her injury.

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