One day, in the process of removing old equipment from a warehouse, Mr. Kelley came across some old cigarette-making equipment that still worked.
Italy's ferocious exporters, which tend to dominate micro-markets for such things as buttons and cigarette-making machines, do not terribly care how the Italian economy is growing: theirs is a world market.
Cigarette sales surged again with the introduction of the "White Burley" tobacco leaf and the invention of the first practical cigarette-making machine, sponsored by tobacco baron James Buchanan "Buck" Duke, in the late 1880s.
Casey's has also reconfigured cigarette racks, making room for cheaper names like Liggett and Kentucky's Best and crowding out less-popular products like menthol cigarettes.
Also hurting the plaintiff's case, according to Campagnino and others, was the lack of similar damages across the population of light cigarette purchasers, making class action status difficult.
Some seem to draw on his Washington experience, such as making more use of a federal cigarette-smuggling law.
Some ideas seem to draw on his Washington experience, such as making more use of a federal cigarette-smuggling law.
Many specialise in making complex and valuable equipment for factories, such as cigarette-rolling machines or printing presses.
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In its 2006 ruling, the Florida Supreme Court noted the questionable tactics attorney Stanley Rosenblatt used to get those findings, such as repeatedly telling the inner-city Miami jury to think about how the cigarette industry divided society into groups and tried to exploit them, and making references to slavery and the unfair treatment of blacks under the law.
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Some scientists have suggested that it's possible to make a safer cigarette, or that nicotine levels could be reduced over a period of time, making tobacco less addictive.
As states and the federal government have passed laws making it more difficult to sell cigarettes by raising taxes and putting more restrictions on sales, cigarette companies actually payout less money from that settlement.
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