Nevertheless, Wednesday's mammoth damages award has succeeded in unnerving the tobacco industry, as it goes far beyond previously accepted limits.
" "We've made a huge amount of progress but it's still the number one cause of preventable death in the country and the tobacco industry hasn't gone away.
Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, for example, never made it to the short list, at least in part because of his work as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, people involved in the search said.
Stanton Glantz, a longtime anti-tobacco advocate and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, said the RICO ruling is what the public health community should use in its fight against the tobacco industry.
In exchange, the tobacco industry was promised a regulatory track out of their current (declining) business model.
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The next big blow to the tobacco industry came in the early 1960s, with the formation of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health.
About one-third to one-half of adolescents who begin smoking may do so because they see smoking in the movies, some research suggests, and the tobacco industry has spent big bucks in the past to make sure cigarettes appeared in popular movies, according to Smoke Free Movies, a University of California San Francisco project.
The second step that might be taken -- again without the need for any congressional vote -- is for the Senate to convene hearings into the practices of the gun industry analogous to those it convened into the tobacco industry in the 1990s.
In a comprehensive and erudite report on global tobacco that analyzes the legal risks involved in investing in the industry, Der Hovanesian provides the logic and reasons why Vontobel is a big investor in tobacco stocks.
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The organisation says that in Kenya, for example, the tobacco industry has issued a legal challenge to a strong smoke-free law passed by the parliament.
As the tobacco industry shifted in the 1980s and the business of preliminary tobacco processing began to decline, there were a number of old warehouses around Kentucky that were no longer being used.
The balance of power is beginning to turn against the tobacco firms in America, and if the industry is to save itself it had better now consider following his example.
The American Cancer Society agrees, saying that the tobacco industry in Africa tries to hold back legislation.
With its method of payment for the children's health care initiative, Congress has put the tobacco industry in a pickle.
Circuit upheld U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler's ruling in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, case, which found the tobacco industry guilty of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to defraud the American public about the health risks of tobacco.
Other the past few weeks MPs have been hearing evidence from police officers, customs officials and representatives of the tobacco and fuel industry on the extent of smuggling in Northern Ireland.
In the days to come, the tobacco industry will doubtless raise objection after objection, and will work behind closed doors to persuade Congress to pass half measures that will not reduce teen smoking.
In the meantime, the industry is raking in handsome profits, in part because there are few businesses as basic as tobacco and cigarettes.
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Outdoor ads were banned for the industry in 2007, while tobacco ads on TV and radio have been outlawed since 1996.
That site also covers the long history of commercial collaboration between Hollywood and the tobacco industry, revealed in once-secret tobacco industry files.
The tobacco industry is interested in some kind of watered down bill.
The decision marks a major legal victory for the tobacco industry, which in recent years has been hit by numerous multi-billion dollar awards in cases brought by ill smokers.
Nick Hamad, a tobacco store owner in Seattle, Washington, said he thinks the tax will ruin the American tobacco industry.
The registry was founded in the late 1950s, when two Swedish researchers, with funding from the country's tobacco industry, wanted to study the then-inconclusive evidence that smoking was bad for health.
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House Commerce Chairman Thomas Bliley, a Republican from Virginia tobacco country who's felt plenty of industry pressure, now has those tobacco documents in hand from the Minnesota trial.
And indeed, the agenda for the upcoming tobacco trade show Tab Info Asia 2009, seems to suggest there is concern in the industry.
The tobacco industry has won six trials in a row now in Florida, a small streak in a grinding war of attrition between cigarette manufacturers and lawyers representing some 8, 000 plaintiffs who were turned loose on the court system after a Florida appeals broke up the nationwide Engle class action in 2003.
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The tobacco industry faces continuous industry volume decline in the U.S. due to growing health consciousness about the extreme health risks of tobacco consumption and the high excise taxation on tobacco products.
In his remarks Wednesday, Clinton said that any settlement with the tobacco industry should not hurt the farmers.
At 12 times 2006 earnings, the bid for Gallaher is priced in line with other large tobacco industry deals.
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