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Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

Without this year's tax increases, as many as 20 billion more cigarettes would have been consumed by the end of next year, he estimated ...
The payments, mandated by a 1998 legal settlement, are based on annual sales of cigarettes in the U ...
Officials can then establish policies that limit smoking without fear of reducing their revenue from the tobacco settlement ...
If we have 40 out of 50 states with state budget deficits, sin taxes are a popular place to go ...
The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...

NJ: After 20 Years, Epic Tobacco Lawsuit Settled

6 million packs were sold in the month, a 47 percent drop from July 2001 ...
He was diagnosed with lung cancer on his birthday, May 15, and died 13 days later ...
The suit claimed Rossi's death was the result of a defective product and that the companies failed to produce a safer product or adequately warn consumers about the dangers of smoking ...

New Evidence that Teens are Most Vulnerable to Smoking Addiction

Even when he was near death, on morphine to ease the pain of cancer, Rossi pretended to drag on a cigarette ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 80 percent of tobacco users started at teens ...
The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...
The other centers are located at the University of Pennsylvania /Georgetown University, University of Wisconsin, Brown University, University of Minnesota, Yale University and the University of Southern California ...

U.S. Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

The traffickers purchase a large volume of cigarettes in states where the tax is low, such as Virginia and North Carolina, transport them up Interstate 95 to states such as Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and then sell them at a discount without paying the higher cigarette taxes in those states ...
Armed with that opinion, Edell's firm began seeking smokers for similar claims against tobacco companies ...
Even when he was near death, on morphine to ease the pain of cancer, Rossi pretended to drag on a cigarette ...
The lawsuit resulted in several historic rulings and helped trigger the release of thousands of internal tobacco company documents, which have since helped plaintiffs in other cases ...

Researchers Debate over the Safety of Smokeless Tobacco

DRI-Wefa performs cigarette consumption forecasts for bond underwriters ...
Getting FDA approval requires time and expense, driving up prices ...
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 ...
If we have 40 out of 50 states with state budget deficits, sin taxes are a popular place to go ...
Products that tout themselves as smoking -cessation aids also require FDA clearance ...

Where to Get DC Tax Free Cigs? The Senate and House Office Buildings

Smokers in Washington usually cough up big bucks for cigarette taxes -- but that does not apply to one elite group on Capitol Hill ...
Smugglers with ties to terrorist groups are acquiring millions of dollars from illegal cigarette sales and funneling the cash to organizations such as ...
On the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, executive branch buildings are permitted to sell cigarettes, though they are banned from vending machines, said April Kaufman, a spokesman for the General Services Administration, which oversees many of the country's federal office buildings ...

Researchers and Public Health Advocates Suggest Smokeless Tobacco Products to Smokers

The only judgment ever to be paid to a plaintiff in such a case was slightly more than $1 million in a 1996 jury trial ...
Investigators for the tobacco companies asked her family's neighbors if they had ever seen Rossi fighting with his wife, she said ...
Getting FDA approval requires time and expense, driving up prices ...
A growing number of anti- smoking researchers and public-health advocates are adopting a tack that not long ago would have been considered heresy: suggesting that hard-core smokers who can't kick the habit would be better off switching to new smokeless tobacco products ...

Cigarette Wars Heating Up

That positive health news may have negative implications for investors in tobacco bonds ...
I think this a major shift in the world of tobacco marketing, and regulation, and public health," says Jack Henningfield, a behavioral biology professor at Johns Hopkins University, referring to the intensified push by state and local lawmakers to discourage smoking , and a host of new products designed to provide safer ways to smoke ...
Liggett was one of seven lawsuits filed in the early 1980s as companion cases to one by survivors of Rose Cipollone, the New Jersey smoker whose family ...
the only defendant remaining after three other cigarette makers were removed , remain sealed ...
4 billion in municipal bonds, has sold all the tobacco settlement bonds it once owned, based on expectations they would ...

Product Defect Suit Against Tobacco Fails

Smugglers with ties to terrorist groups are acquiring millions of dollars from illegal cigarette sales and funneling the cash to organizations such as ...
The payments, mandated by a 1998 legal settlement, are based on annual sales of cigarettes in the U ...
Rather than take their share in annual installments, some municipalities have sold bonds that will be paid off by the settlement, which is estimated to generate ...
A South Carolina federal judge interpreted Pennsylvania law as requiring that evidence, even though the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has stated otherwise ...
During her own deposition, Haines said, a defense attorney asked if her father ever hit her ...

News Anchor Peter Jennings Dies at 67 of Lung Cancer

the only defendant remaining after three other cigarette makers were removed , remain sealed ...
Getting FDA approval requires time and expense, driving up prices ...