Cigarette Discounts Cited in Racketeering Trial
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Cigarette makers have revved up  price promotions in recent years, a strategy they know will  lead to more underage smoking, an economist testifying in the  U.S. government's racketeering trial against the industry said  on Wednesday.
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U.S. opens $280 billion fraud trial against tobacco industry, alleging the biggest companies worked together for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking.
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Briton was accused of throwing burning cigarette into dry grass, causing fire that killed 65-year-old
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The former head of a tobacco-funded  indoor air research organization was confronted with  allegations that the group concealed its connection to  cigarette makers, as he testified in the government's $280  billion conspiracy suit against the industry on Monday.
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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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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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A self-proclaimed stock guru was alternately described as a crusader and a crook yesterday in opening arguments of his federal racketeering trial in Brooklyn.
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NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Monday granted class action status to tens of millions of "light cigarette" smokers for a potential $200 billion lawsuit against tobacco companies.
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New York City can file a revised racketeering lawsuit accusing Internet cigarette sellers of evading the city's steep taxes through computer sales to Big Apple smokers, a judge ruled on Thursday.
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Lawyers for cigarette makers on  Wednesday sought to knock down the government's $280 billion  racketeering case against the industry, telling a federal judge  that they had already addressed the government's concerns by  changing the way they do business.
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Japan Tobaccoâs Canadian unit was ordered by an Ontario judge to stand trial on charges it defrauded the Canadian government out of about a billion Canadian dollars ($931 million) in the 1990s by shipping cigarettes to the United States to avoid paying taxes. The judge, David Fairgrieve of Ontario Provincial Court, said in a 29-page ruling that prosecutors had presented enough evidence to warrant a trial of the unit, JTI-MacDonald. The company has denied any wrongdoing.
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A group of heavy Marlboro smokers have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston, asking Philip Morris USA to pay for screenings that may detect the early stages of lung cancer, court documents showed on Friday.
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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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US lawsuit against tobacco firms that "duped" smokers over low-tar cigarettes get the go-ahead.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Cigarette makers may publicly admit that their products cause cancer, but when sued by sick smokers, they deny or minimize the link, according to a new analysis of lawsuits.
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Sick Florida smokers urged the state&#39;s highest court Wednesday to punish the tobacco industry for &quot;fraud and deceit&quot; by restoring a $145 billion US class-action award, the largest ever by an American jury.
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The defendants are accused of helping push through Enron's year-end 1999 sale of interest of barges so the energy company could book a $12 million pretax profit the company needed to meet earnings targets.