Chewing Tobacco Maker Agrees To $5M Settlement
The maker of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco has agreed to pay $5 million to the family of a man who died of mouth cancer in what is believed to...
Appetite Chemicals in Cigarettes
British and American tobacco companies deliberately added powerful appetite-suppressing chemicals to cigarettes to attract people worried about their weight, according to internal industry documents dating from 1949 to 1999. Chemical...
2011 January 21
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed another bill that would have banned smoking in California’s state parks and beaches. One tobacco company, Commonwealth Brands, had publicly opposed the ban, arguing it would...
Schwarzenegger Vetoes Smoking Ban
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed another bill that would have banned smoking in California’s state parks and beaches. One tobacco company, Commonwealth Brands, had publicly opposed the ban, arguing it would...
Chewing Tobacco Maker Agrees To $5M Settlement
tobacco company. A legal expert said the case could open the door for more lawsuits against makers of chewing tobacco, an industry that drew fewer legal battles during the 1990s...