Feds: Tobacco Firms Worked Together
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WASHINGTON - Tobacco companies, desperate to maintain their hold on tens of millions of American smokers, worked together for decades to deceive the public about the dangers of cigarettes and to encourage the young to start puffing, government lawyers said Tuesday at the start of a racketeering trial.    Justice Department lawyers pointed to numerous statements by industry executives that created doubt among smokers about whether the habit was harmful and whether they really needed to kick it...
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers renewed on Thursday an effort to authorize the government to regulate cigarettes as a drug, winning praise from anti-smoking forces and the maker of Marlboro cigarettes.
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PARIS  - A lab owned by US tobacco giant Philip Morris uncovered evidence in the early 1980s about potential risks from passive smoking but its findings were never made public, a study charges.
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Tobacco giant Philip Morris/Altria put on its political party clothes recently, but it may soon be dressing for a wake. Under fire from the Department of Justice and facing
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Only three states &#151; Maine, Delaware and Mississippi &#151; are spending money on anti-smoking efforts at the minimum levels recommended by federal health officials, a coalition of public health groups said Thursday.
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Thursday marks the American Cancer Society&#39;s 28th Annual Great American Smokeout, a day when smokers unite in the goal to quit smoking permanently.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Japan Tobacco's  2914.T JTI-Macdonald Corp. unit filed for court protection  from creditors on Tuesday in a fight with Quebec tax officials,  who have accused the firm of smuggling to avoid more than $1  billion in taxes.
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Le Lab, an internal Web site at Altadis, Europeâs tobacco giant, is meant to be part social networking site, part data resource, part virtual pep rally.
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Philip Morris USA, the tobacco company, will test-market four flavors of a smokeless tobacco product known as snus under the Marlboro brand name.
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US government on Tuesday begins a major court battle to win $US280 billion ($400 billion) that it says major tobacco companies earned from the public by covering up the dangers of smoking.
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A public-health article published online by THE LANCET suggests that Philip Morris, one of the world&#39;s leading tobacco manufacturers, was covertly involved in scientific research into the health effects of tobacco 30 years ago, and conducted research into
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WASHINGTON/SCOTTSDALE, Arizona  - The tobacco wars are back in the U.S. Congress, but the battle lines have shifted and anti-smoking forces are no longer facing a monolithic tobacco industry and loyal legislators.
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Philip Morris, one of the nation&#39;s biggest manufacturers of tobacco products, conducted a study in 1982 that revealed the dangers of passive smoking.
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The Food and Drug Administration should regulate tobacco and develop a plan to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, the Institute of Medicine urged Thursday.
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A committee working on tax bills passed by the US House of Representatives and US Senate failed to agree on key tobacco-related provisions, Reuters reported Oct. 5. The corporate tax bill passed by the Senate
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Philip Morris, one of the world's  leading tobacco manufacturers, was involved in research into  the health effects of smoking 30 years ago but did not reveal  data on the dangers of passive smoking, scientists said on  Thursday.
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BOSTON, Sept. 11 -- Philip Morris USA, the nation's largest cigarette maker, is disputing a study by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that found that nicotine levels in cigarettes rose about 10 percent from 1998 to 2004.