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Use of 'N' word causes mistrial in landmark tobacco lawsuit
South Florida Sun-SentinelA Broward Circuit Court judge declared a mistrial Thursday in a landmark tobacco case of a Cooper City widow suing cigarette maker Philip Morris on a wrongful-death claim. An expert witness, on the second day of trial, used a racist term — the N-...Tags: Miami-Dade County, Justice System, Racism, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Florida
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Movies with Jim Carrey, Richard Gere, Uma Thurman to screen at Sundance Film Festival
For years the Sundance Film Festival has featured a smattering of big-time stars in its smaller movies. But January's gathering might have more recognizable faces than most Sundance red carpets in recent memory -- Jim Carrey, Richard Gere, William Hurt,...Tags: Ethan Hawke, Billy Bob Thornton, Kevin Spacey, Film Festivals, Jim Carrey
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Philip Morris uses man-made wetlands to filter wastewater from Virginia plant
AP Business WriterCHESTER, Va. (AP) — It started with the gnats. Then came the dragonflies and mice. Eventually the birds, foxes, turtles and deer stumbled upon a man-made wetlands that naturally filters wastewater from the nation's biggest tobacco maker. The...Tags: Water Supply, Environmental Pollution, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Aquaculture, Virginia
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Philip Morris wetlands filter wastewater
AP Business WriterIt started with the gnats. Then came the dragonflies and mice. Eventually the birds, foxes, turtles and deer stumbled upon a man-made wetlands that naturally filters wastewater from the nation's biggest tobacco maker. The nearly 50 acres of wetlands...Tags: Water Supply, Environmental Pollution, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Aquaculture, Virginia
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Supreme Court reviews $79.5M award to smoker's widow in third round of Philip Morris case
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ A cigarette maker and a smoker's widow squared off for the third time at the Supreme Court on Wednesday over a $79.5 million punitive damages award, but the real battle was between the justices and their counterparts on Oregon's high...Tags: Justice System, Employees, Constitutional Issues, Trials, Tobacco Products
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First of many tobacco trials begins in Broward County
South Florida Sun-SentinelHe grew up in Brooklyn and started smoking at 15, back when cigarettes were cool, celebrities lit up on black-and-white TV and even doctors promoted the virtues of competing brands. America loved its tobacco in the 1950s, and Stuart Hess was no exception....Tags: Miami-Dade County, Justice System, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Broward County, Tobacco Products
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Banking on Alonso: Santander ditches McLaren for Ferrari
Autoblog.comFiled under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Marketing/Advertising Back in the day, Marlboro sponsored both McLaren and Ferrari. The former wore the sponsor's colors, while the latter stayed all red until Philip Morris decided to stop hedging its... -
Getting smokers to quit littering
It's one of those things so mundane and commonplace, most of us probably don't even notice when it happens, let alone get worked up over it.
I don't know why it bugged me so much when I saw it again the other day.
I was driving on the 10 Freeway and...Tags: Los Angeles, San Diego (San Diego, California), California, Marketing, Tobacco Products
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Grow it if you got it
Of The Associated PressLindsay Pasley is an eager young man in what used to be an older man's game -- tobacco farming. He recently took 20 tons of his early prepared leaf to Clay's Tobacco Warehouse in Mount Sterling, due east of Lexington in the Appalachian foothills, where...Tags: Government, North Carolina, Missouri, Agricultural Research and Technology, Tobacco Products
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Mich. eyes new penalties for having illegal smokes
Associated Press WriterMichigan, a ripe destination for illegal cigarettes because of its high per-pack tax, could start going after store owners and others caught with smaller quantities of tobacco smuggled from around the country. State law generally allows incarceration or...Tags: Government, North Carolina, Indiana, Executive Branch, Ohio
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Can 'sin' taxes be a savior for Florida's ailing budget?
Tallahassee BureauIt's been two decades since Tallahassee imposed an across-the-board tax increase to pay for classrooms, health care, prisons and roads. A 6-cent sales tax on services was enacted and quickly repealed in 1987, amid a furor that cost Republican Gov. Bob...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Florida, Winter Park, Heads of State
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FTC withdraws support for 'flawed' test used to measure tar, nicotine levels in cigarettes
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ The cigarette industry for 42 years has made factual claims about tar and nicotine levels based on machine testing blessed by the Federal Trade Commission. Now the FTC has dropped the test, known as the Cambridge Filter Method, like a...Tags: Government, Health Organizations, Dining and Drinking, National Government, Consumers
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