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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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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WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has denied a request by tobacco companies to let them keep marketing "light" and "low tar" cigarettes until an appeal is settled in their case.
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Toronto -- Health Canada is proposing substantial changes to current requirements for the labelling of tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers, the federal department said yesterday.
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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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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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The US Supreme Court threw out an order for tobacco giant Philip Morris to pay 79.5 million dollars to the widow of a US smoker, in a victory for businesses hoping to limit massive monetary awards.
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The Supreme Court yesterday overturned a nearly $80 million verdict intended to punish the Philip Morris tobacco company for endangering the lives of smokers, and the justices set limits on how jurors can decide to make big business pay for wrongdoing.
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By Joe Wessels  The question has become: No smoking, or, uh, smoke if you want?  An 11th hour effort Wednesday by liquor license holders to derail a new Ohio smoking ban that was set to take effect Thursday has apparently worked  --  for now.
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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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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a constitutional challenge by tobacco companies to Minnesota's 75-cent-per-pack health impact fee on cigarettes.
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ALBANY, NY - Makers of Kool cigarettes have agreed to limit a hip-hop theme marketing campaign and pay almost $1.5 million for anti-smoking programs following lawsuits claiming they targeted young people.
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America&#39;s largest tobacco companies go on trial on Tuesday as they face a $280bn (Â£156bn) government lawsuit. Opening arguments will be heard in the case, in which the Justice Department accuses the companies
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An electronic petition of the UK Prime Minister's office that garnered 1,414 signatures calling flatly for a ban on the use of digital rights management techniques in all digital content, was not so flatly, though quite clearly rejected on Monday. A December report commissioned by Her Majesty's Treasury may have prompted the rejection.
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A federal judge on Saturday denied a tobacco industry request to delay the government's &#36;280 billion racketeering case against the industry which is scheduled to go to trial on Sept. 21.
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday  rejected the government's bid to force cigarette makers to pay  $280 billion in past profits, striking the toughest sanction  from the racketeering case and lifting tobacco stocks.
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Last week, the state finally outlawed underage smoking. Critics say that's not enough.