Tobacco ad limit challenge fails
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Tobacco companies fail in a High Court bid to overturn strict limits on advertising at the point of sale.
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Philip Morris USA challenged a $10.1 billion consumer fraud ruling Wednesday, telling the Illinois Supreme Court that its "light" cigarettes performed as advertised.
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Businesses that offer customers shisha water pipes to smoke tobacco are waging an 11th-hour bid for an exemption to a smoking ban that comes into force in England on Sunday.
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TORONTO -- Health Canada is proposing substantial changes to requirements for the labelling of tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers, the federal department said yesterday. While health warnings -- in place since 2000 -- are &quot;working ...
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A US court rejects a government lawsuit accusing the tobacco industry of covering up the effects of smoking.
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A federal appeals court ruled on  Tuesday that California's anti-smoking advertisements do not  violate the rights of tobacco companies even though they were  funded by taxes on cigarettes.
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A federal appeals court Friday rejected the government's attempt to recover $280 billion from tobacco companies, even if the Department of Justice prevails in its suit that the companies defrauded and misled the American public.
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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a &#36;145 billion punitive damage award against tobacco companies for injuring smokers, saying it was excessive. The award had been the largest ever by an American jury.
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WASHINGTON The tobacco industry urged a federal appeals court today to throw out a decision allowing the Justice Department to sue cigarette companies for 280 (b) billion dollars.
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In a major setback for public health groups, congressional tax negotiators on Tuesday blocked a plan to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco, but a &#36;10 billion package for tobacco farmers was set to be approved.
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The U.S. government's effort to cut the adult smoking rate to 12 percent or less by 2010 will fail unless most states increase funding for anti-tobacco programs, federal health officials said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. government's effort to cut the  adult smoking rate to 12 percent or less by 2010 will fail  unless most states increase funding for anti-tobacco programs,  federal health officials said on Wednesday.
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US tobacco companies applaud an appeal court decision rejecting a $280bn claim by the government.
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The House of Representatives on Thursday failed to override President George W. Bush's veto of a plan to expand a popular children's health care program and pay for it by raising tobacco taxes.
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New controls on tobacco advertising have come into effect, the latest step in a government campaign against smoking. Cigarette and tobacco advertising in shops, pubs and clubs will now be
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The Ministry for Health and Community Care denied the statement issued by the General Retailers & Traders Union (GRTU) that the Government is imposing a total smoking ban in bars and restaurants.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - Manitoba's sweeping anti-smoking law is facing a constitutional challenge - one that will inevitably be watched by other provinces planning their own crackdowns on tobacco.