Tobacco Lawyer Denies Deception on Secondhand Smoke
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A tobacco industry lawyer sought to  fend off accusations that cigarette makers waged a deceptive  campaign to blunt concerns over secondhand smoke as he  testified on Wednesday in the government's $280 billion suit  against the industry.
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JOHN Reid, the Health Secretary, was yesterday accused of suppressing a report from medical experts warning that the risks of passive smoking are greater than initially thought.
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Lawmakers must move quickly to keep tobacco companies from continuing to label cigarettes as "low tar" and "light" following a landmark federal court ruling that said several major tobacco companies have conspired to mislead the public about the health hazards of smoking, an anti-tobacco senator said Thursday.
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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 yesterday at the start of a racketeering trial.
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A US lawsuit against tobacco firms that "duped" smokers over low-tar cigarettes gets the go-ahead.
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Cigarette makers lied about the  dangers of smoking for 50 years, the U.S. government said on  Tuesday as its $280 billion case against the industry went to  trial.
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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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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 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.
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Roger Clemens says that he denied using performance-enhancing drugs while speaking under oath to congressional lawyers Tuesday.
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A former NASA safety inspector accused of falsifying examinations of crucial parts on the space shuttle Discovery pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court, and his attorney called him &quot;meticulous in his work.
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Secondhand smoke can cause cancer. It&#39;s what the surgeon general says. So too the Environmental Protection Agency. And the World Health Organization.
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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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Preliminary findings suggest that outdoor secondhand smoke could constitute a health risk.
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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 new study says.
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Major cigarette makers go on trial  on Tuesday in the U.S. government's $280 billion racketeering  case that charges the tobacco industry with deliberately  deceiving the public about the risks of smoking since the  1950s.
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After years of denying that smoking is harmful, the tobacco industry does an about-face in front of a congressional panel when one of its top executives admits that, yes, smoking is dangerous.