Feds: Cigarette Makers Lied for 50 Years
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Cigarette makers lied about the dangers of smoking for 50 years, the US government said on Tuesday as its $280 billion case against the industry went to trial.
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WASHINGTON -- It has taken five years of pretrial skirmishing, but testimony will finally begin tomorrow in the government's massive racketeering case alleging that the tobacco industry defrauded and misled the American public for almost 50 years about the health risks of cigarette smoking.
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A divided federal appeals court  panel on Wednesday expressed skepticism about whether the  government had the authority to force cigarette makers to cough  up billions of dollars in past profits as part of its  racketeering case against the industry.
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A former tobacco industry executive testified Wednesday that top cigarette makers for years have chosen not to make their products safer despite knowing how to.
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A judge is considering if tobacco companies should be tried on whether they deceived smokers about the safety of light cigarettes.
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The majority of smokers don&#39;t know the facts about what&#39;s in their cigarettes and how these ingredients may be harming them.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- Tobacco companies were working as recently as three years ago to contradict research that strengthened the scientific link between smoking and cancer, a new report based on industry documents claims.
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A tobacco firm has said allegations it covered up evidence of the harmful effects of passive smoking are &quot;false, inaccurate and highly misleading&quot;.
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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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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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A divided U.S. federal appeals court  panel on Wednesday expressed skepticism about whether the  government had the authority to force cigarette makers to pay  billions of dollars in past profits as part of its racketeering  case against the industry.
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Major cigarette makers go on trial on Tuesday in the U.S. government's &#36;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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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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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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In 1954, a landmark study by British scientist Richard Doll provided the first incontrovertible evidence that smoking causes lung cancer.
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A former Bush administration   official lied to investigators in an attempt to hide the   influence-peddling activities of disgraced lobbyist Jack   Abramoff, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that the nation's top cigarette makers violated racketeering laws, deceiving the public for years about the health hazards of smoking, but said she couldn't order them to pay the billions of dollars the government had sought.