Tobacco firms deny public misled
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Cigarette companies have been honest in highlighting the "dangerous" risks of smoking, a lawyer for the tobacco industry has told a US court.
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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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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.
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A lawsuit accusing tobacco companies of   defrauding smokers into thinking "light" cigarettes were safer   than regular brands can proceed as a class action, a federal   judge in New York ruled on Monday.
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A JUDGH HAS ruled that a manufacturer of electronic voting equipment knowingly misrepresented its claims when it sent threatening letters to the ISPs of students who had posted the company&#39;s internal documents online.
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A medical historian testifying in  the government's $280 billion tobacco industry trial conceded  on Monday that doubts about the link between smoking and cancer  persisted into the 1960s, but he stood by his description of  the industry as "rogue" and deviant."
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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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Tobacco companies tried to cast doubt on  the link between smoking and cancer by funding projects that  challenged the findings of a landmark study, scientists said on  Friday.
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An appeals court Friday dealt a major blow to the government's attempt to hold the tobacco industry accountable for decades of alleged deceit about the dangers of smoking, ruling the Justice Department can't seek &#36;280 billion in penalties.
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A former tobacco company researcher  told a federal judge on Wednesday he believed he was denied a  promotion in the 1980s over concerns he would testify about the  dangers of smoking in a sick-smoker lawsuit.
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Oil giant BP Plc has denied misleading a   U.S. environmental regulator about having installed safety   equipment at its Texas City refinery that investigators believe   would have reduced the likelihood of a fatal explosion last   year.
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A tobacco industry lawyer  acknowledged on Wednesday that some executives may have acted  wrongly, but said cigarette companies have never engaged in a  conspiracy to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking.
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NEW YORK  - The tobacco industry for many years claimed that it was unaware of biological evidence that smoking is harmful to health, but that was untrue according to a medical journal report.
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WASHINGTON - Tobacco industry lawyers say the government won't be able to prove cigarette makers schemed for decades to deceive the public about smoking hazards and that the industry intends to keep up such bad behavior.    Industry lawyers plan to offer opening arguments in the $280 billion civil racketeering case against them Wednesday...
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Asserting that tobacco companies purposely misled consumers, plaintiffs are asking for $20 billion to $200 billion in damages.
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The prime minister is asked to explain why he did not declare a holiday with a leading tobacco industry figure
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Oil giant BP Plc has denied misleading a  U.S. environmental regulator about having installed safety  equipment at its Texas City refinery that investigators believe  would have reduced the likelihood of a fatal explosion last  year.