Topics :: tobacco industry

• NC man sentenced for cigarette tax scheme

  WWBT 12 News | 10/01/2009 03:45 pm

  Associated Press - October 1, 2009 10:35 AM ET ABINGDON, Va. (AP) - A North Carolina man has been sentenced to a year in prison and barred from the tobacco ...

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• New FDA tobacco chief named

  Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 08/20/2009 05:01 am

  As chief public-health officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Lawrence Deyton is credited with improving the agency’s tobacco-cessation programs for veterans. Now, Deyton will lead the Food and ...

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• Cigarette maker Altria to release 2Q earnings

  WWBT 12 News | 07/22/2009 09:15 am

  Associated Press - July 22, 2009 4:15 AM ET RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The tobacco industry is waiting to see how the nation's largest cigarette maker performed during the second ...

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• Local smokers react to new anti-smoking law

  WWBT 12 News | 06/23/2009 05:10 am

  A local cigarette dealer is worried about the future of his business after President Obama signed into law landmark legislation allowing the federal government to regulate the tobacco industry.

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• Tobacco moves toward federal oversight

  Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 06/12/2009 05:01 am

  The tobacco industry, a force in Virginia’s economy and culture for 400 years, is headed toward potentially sweeping changes under legislation approved by the U.S. Senate yesterday. In a step ...

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• California court revives tobacco industry lawsuit

  WRIC 8 News | 05/18/2009 04:36 pm

  Associated Press - May 18, 2009 4:33 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court has revived a class-action lawsuit against the tobacco industry alleging its advertisements misled...

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• Pa. judge says Camel ad violated tobacco's pledge

  WRIC 8 News | 05/13/2009 03:36 pm

  Associated Press - May 13, 2009 3:23 PM ET HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Philadelphia judge says Camel ads in Rolling Stone magazine violated the tobacco industry's decade-old promise not ...

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• Altria Eyeing Imperial Tobacco?

  richmond.com | 06/30/2008 08:02 am

  Altria Group Inc. may join Philip Morris International Inc., in bidding for Imperial Tobacco Group Plc , Europe's second-largest cigarette maker, with a view to breaking up the company, says ...

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• Another Day, Another Legal Filing Against Philip Morris

  richmond.com | 06/23/2008 09:01 am

  There's no end to the ingenuity of people seeking to sue tobacco companies. The latest case to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court is a class-action suit filed in ...

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• National Trounce on Trani Month

  richmond.com | 05/28/2008 05:56 am

  What is this, trounce on Gene Trani month? The New York Times unloaded on Virginia Commonwealth University , and by implication the school's president Eugene Trani, last week when it ...

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