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	News Release - Tobacco Company Purchase Intentions Increase
		U.S. tobacco companies were required to file their purchase intentions for 2001 with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) by 5:00 P.M. Friday, December 1st.
		Tobacco company purchase intentions are combined with average annual flue-cured exports for the preceding three years, and the amount of tobacco held by the Flue-Cured Tobacco Stabilization Cooperative above or below the allowed reserve stock levels to determine the annual amount of flue-cured tobacco farmers are allowed to grow.
		Etheridge, in response to today's announcement by USDA, wrote the five major tobacco companies to thank them for increasing their purchase intentions for 2001 and to encourage them to make additional purchases from Stabilization prior to USDA's quota announcement on December 15th to stave off a quota cut of any kind for farmers.
	www.house.gov /etheridge/Press-TobaccoCompanyPurchase.htm (477 words)

	Court TV Tobacco Litigation Documents
		Kansas is one of the latest states to sue the nation's leading tobacco companies to recover health care costs incurred because of the harmful effects of cigarette smoke.
		The tobacco industry won a major legal victory on May 23, 1996, when a federal appeals court refused to grant class-action status to a lawsuit accusing the companies of manipulating nicotine levels to keep smokers hooked and suppressing data that cigarettes are addictive.
		The tobacco companies claim that the state is preparing a suit against them for the costs incurred by Medicaid and other health programs due to the detrimental effects of cigarette smoking on Texans.
	www.courttv.com /legaldocs/business/tobacco (2073 words)

	Tobacco industry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tobacco is a commodity product similar in economic terms to foodstuffs in that the price is set by the fact that crop yields vary depending on local weather conditions.
		The tobacco industry generally refers to the companies involved in the manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing and pipe tobacco.
		The suits claimed that tobacco causes cancer, that companies in the industry knew this, and that they deliberately understated the significance of their findings, contributing to the illness and death of many citizens in those states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tobacco_company (806 words)

	Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & William Tobacco Corp.
		She hold the companies responsible for her father's cancer-related death in 1997 and reportedly plans to help prove her case by using the newly-released, incriminating internal documents from Brown & Williamson that surfaced in the Bliley Congressional hearing and Brown & Williamson's recently settled tobacco liability trial in Minnesota.
		The plaintiffs also claim that the tobacco companies knew that prolonged smoking, especially begun at an early age, would increase the likelihood of harm to consumers.
		After almost two days of deliberations, a jury found that the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company was liable in the death of late smoker Roland Maddox's death and that the tobacco company was part of an industry-wide conspiracy to defraud the public and Maddox about the dangers of smoking.
	courttv.com /trials/tobacco (1130 words)

	Michael Siegel, MD, MPH - Tobacco
		Tobacco companies are increasingly using corporate sponsorship as an important component of their marketing mix.
		Monitoring and reporting of tobacco company sponsorship expenditures would be of great use because it would give the public as well as lawmakers and policy makers a more accurate picture of tobacco company promotional spending.
		To report tobacco company television advertising expenditures as zero is grossly inaccurate, and completely ignores the millions of dollars in television advertising value achieved through their sponsorship of motor sports events, which is documented in my research.
	www.ftc.gov /os/comments/tobaccocomments2/siegelmichaelmdmph.htm (913 words)

	The History of Tobacco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tobacco is a plant that grows natively in North and South America.
		Tobacco was believed to be a cure-all, and was used to dress wounds, as well as a pain killer.
		Tobacco companies sent millions of cigarettes to the soldiers for free, and when these soldiers came home, the companies had a steady stream of loyal customers.
	academic.udayton.edu /health/syllabi/tobacco/history.htm (1405 words)

	U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
		The Company agreed not to sponsor concerts; events in which youths are a significant percentage of the intended audience; events in which any of the paid participants or contestants are youths; and athletic events between opposing teams in any football, baseball, soccer, or hockey league.
		The Company also agreed not to sell or distribute non-tobacco merchandise (such as caps and shirts) bearing the brand name, logo, or trademark of a tobacco product to the general public, and not to use non-tobacco brand names on tobacco products.
		The Company also agreed to obtain proof of legal age as a condition of providing consumers with any non-branded item in exchange for the purchase of tobacco products or redemption of proofs of purchase.
	www.ussmokeless.com /agreement.cfm (391 words)

	American Tobacco Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The company was one of the original 12 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896.
		The company built processing plants and warehouses in Reidsville and Durham in North Carolina.
		A section of the East Coast Greenway, known as the American Tobacco Trail, runs along a railroad bed abandoned by the Durham plant of the American Tobacco Company in the 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Tobacco_Company (354 words)

	R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Our company's rich heritage of innovation in the laboratory and in the marketplace continue to serve us well in successfully meeting the cigarette brand preferences of about 25% of the nation's 46.5 million adult smokers." RJR is headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
		In 1918, Richard Joshua Reynolds - the company founder - died at the age of 68.
		In November 2005, the advocacy groups The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention, and Floridians for Youth Tobacco Education warned that RJR was increasingly marketing to Latino children.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=R.J._Reynolds_Tobacco_Company (1082 words)

	Tobacco Free QC - History of Tobacco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Its release coincided with a hearing on the tobacco settlement by the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, chaired by Senator John McCain (R-AZ).
		U.S. tobacco industry marketing expenditures since the settlement: 1998-6.9 billion, 1999-8.4 billion, 2000-9.8 billion, and 2001-11.5 billion, an increase of 66 percent since the settlement.
		Tobacco companies spend $20 to market products for every dollar states spend to reduce tobacco use.
	www.tobaccofreeqc.org /youth/history_of_tobacco.php (1399 words)

	State Tobacco Company Settlements and Rural Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The use of tobacco remains the most important preventable cause of death in the United States, and over the past decade, the states have moved to the forefront of controlling its use.
		Furthermore, the Master Settlement Agreement reached in November 1998 between 46 states and the tobacco industry-along with individual state settlements reached earlier with tobacco companies in Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi and Texas-are projected to provide as much as $246 billion from tobacco firms to states over the next 25 years.
		Although most of the proposed or enacted programs aimed at smoking cessation and tobacco use prevention2 direct funds for statewide use (and therefore rural health care programs generally would be eligible), such proposals or laws are vague as to exactly where these funds will be spent.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/health/Forum/tobaccom.htm (1601 words)

	Statement of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Before the U.S. House of Representatives / Committee on Energy and Commerce ...
		This is the famous 1994 testimony by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where the company compared the addictiveness of cigarettes to that of tea, coffee, Twinkies and even carrots.
		The tobacco is "puffed" or expanded in order to allow the same amount of tobacco to occupy more space, much like popping popcorn.
		tobacco was used to a much greater extent to reduce the weight even more dramatically.7 Thus, as part of the,lesign techniques to achieve lower yields of "tar" and other smoke constituents, the amount of tobacco in cigarettes has been reduced, with the corresponding result that the smoke nicotine has also been reduced dramatically.
	tobaccodocuments.org /landman/TIMN0046266-6294.html (2847 words)

	USATODAY.com - Judge's ruling slams Big Tobacco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In a sweeping condemnation of Big Tobacco, a federal judge Thursday agreed with the government that leading tobacco companies conspired to break anti-racketeering laws and deceive the public about the health risks of smoking for about 50 years.
		The Justice Department's seven-year case against Phillip Morris USA and its parent company Altria Group (MO), R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (RAI), Brown and Williamson Tobacco, British American Tobacco (BTI), Lorillard Tobacco (LTR) and Liggett Group was one of the largest in the agency's history.
		Mark Smith, an R.J. Reynolds spokesman, told the Associated Press the company was "gratified that the court did not award unjustified and extraordinarily expensive monetary penalties," but disappointed that Kessler found the firms had engaged in conspiracy.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/2006-08-17-tobacco-lawsuit_x.htm (343 words)

	Tobacco Reporter Feature Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The company’s net profit for 2003 was 421 million pounds (£1=us$1.69), compared with £272 million last year, a 55 percent increase.
		The company will soon begin construction of a cigarette factory in Izmir, which is expected to become fully operational in early 2005.
		The U.K. is in the midst of its first tobacco compensation case, in which a smoker’s widow is suing Imperial for £500,000.
	www.tobaccoreporter.com /current/story1.asp (815 words)

	.: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company :. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The company is currently test-marketing Revel Tobacco Packs, a uniquely discreet option for adult smokers looking for an alternative tobacco product that allows them to enjoy real satisfaction without lighting up.
		Our ultimate objective is to build awareness of the smokeless tobacco category, increase social acceptability of its products, and improve the ease of use for adult consumers entering the category.
		U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company is part of the "We Card" Coalition, helping retailers enforce minimum age laws for the purchase of tobacco products.
	student.bradleyacademy.edu /student/jeffrey_bonn/final2/info.html (344 words)

	Information about CDC's Tobacco Industry Documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This initiative was designed to lift the tobacco industry’s veil of secrecy so that all can know the origins of the epidemic of teen smoking and the history of our national addiction to tobacco.
		Most of these sites are maintained by the various tobacco companies and are supposed to mirror the documents in the Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository according to the Master Settlement Agreement.
		The 4B Index was provided by the tobacco company defendants as a systematic way to access the documents that were released in the Minnesota litigation.
	www.cdc.gov /tobacco/industrydocs/about.htm (859 words)

	NC & the Global Economy > Tobacco > Corporations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		First of all, the company lobbied extensively while Congress debated the bill to eliminate the FDA Regulations that were attached in the Senate's version of the bill.
		While Lorillard is one of the largest companies in the country, it has recently had to restructure its corporate strategy in order to compete with declining demand for cigarettes and an increase in the number of small tobacco companies nation-wide.
		Since the company is a global leaf tobacco merchant, its purchases, processes, and sales of tobacco occur in many locations around the world, and relatively few occur in the U.S. It has processing facilities in North Carolina and Kentucky and in other countries, including Italy, the CIS, Spain, and Thailand.
	www.duke.edu /web/soc142/tobacco/corps.html (2842 words)

	Pakistan Tobacco Company - Home
		Pakistan Tobacco Company Limited is part of British American Tobacco, the world's most international tobacco group, with brands sold in 180 markets around the world.
		Our company is committed to providing consumers with pleasure through excellent products, and to demonstrating that we are meeting our commercial goals in ways that are consistent with reasonable societal expectations of a responsible tobacco group in the 21st century.
		Pakistan Tobacco Company is part of the British American Tobacco Group, one of the world's most international business groups.
	www.ptc.com.pk (182 words)

	Tobacco Control Archives
		Thousands of pages of documents from the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation were donated unsolicited to the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives in 1994.
		Complaints filed by the Attorneys General of 44 states and similar actions against the tobacco industry.
		Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles by Stanton A. Glantz and Edith D. Balbach
	www.library.ucsf.edu /tobacco (366 words)

	Lorillard Tobacco Company Reaches Settlement in Tobacco Grower Action
		Lorillard Tobacco Company today announced that it and a number of other U.S. tobacco companies has reached a settlement with U.S. tobacco growers that includes a decade-long commitment to purchase domestic leaf.
		A class of growers had alleged antitrust violations resulting from the companies' purchases of flue-cured and burley leaf tobacco, asserting that the actions led to depressed prices for leaf tobacco.
		In addition to its commitment to purchase at least 20 million pounds of U.S. tobacco leaf each year for the next decade, Lorillard will contribute $20 million to a $200 million cash settlement to the farmers named in the class.
	www.tobacco.org /news/126356.html (192 words)

	Online NewsHour: Tobacco Company Admission-- March 20, 1997
		The remaining tobacco companies have not agreed to any settlements with the states.
		Last March, the company reached an agreement on a class action suit, agreeing to donate 5 percent of its pre-tax income for 25 years to study nicotine addiction and fund smoking cessation programs.
		The four companies released a joint statement saying the only ones who potentially benefit from Liggett's latest shenanigans are plaintiffs' lawyers and some seed money for their illegitimate assault on the remainder of the tobacco industry.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/health/march97/tobacco_3-20.html (1686 words)

	Universal Corporation - Internet Web Site
		The Company is one of the world's leading leaf tobacco merchants and processors, based on volumes handled by its subsidiaries and affiliates, and has operations in agri-products.
		Universal's tobacco business includes selecting, buying, shipping, processing, packing, storing, and financing of leaf tobacco in tobacco growing countries for sale to, or for the account of, manufacturers of tobacco products throughout the world.
		Universal's tobacco operations have been its principal focus since its founding, and for fiscal year ended March 31, 2006, tobacco operations accounted for 51% of revenues and 78% of segment operating income.
	www.universalcorp.com (219 words)

	Tobacco News
		Shares of Japan Tobacco Inc. halted their recent bull run on Monday, falling more than 5 percent as market participants said the company's plan to buy British cigarette maker Gallaher Group Plc was now factored...
		Japan Tobacco Inc., the world's third-largest cigarette maker, agreed to buy Gallaher Group Plc, the maker of the Benson & Hedges brand in Europe, in a takeover that may be valued at 7.5 billion pounds.
		A proposed deal involving tobacco companies in Japan and England could have a major ripple effect on R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s efforts to re-establish its international presence.
	www.topix.net /business/tobacco (767 words)

	Copenhagen and Skoal Tobacco Products - UST, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 2001, the company changed its name from United States Tobacco Company to U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (USSTC) to more accurately reflect its unique position in the tobacco industry.
		The company purchases 100-percent American-grown tobacco, demonstrating its commitment to the agricultural economy and the families and communities that dedicate their livelihoods to growing the best quality tobacco in the world.
		Among the many initiatives taken by the company, USSTC is the only smokeless tobacco manufacturer to sign the Smokeless Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (STMSA).
	www.ustinc.com /content.cfm?id=12 (355 words)

	Tobacco company funding legal challenge to smoking ban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Officials at tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds said yesterday the company is footing the bill for two Downtown restaurant owners to fight Allegheny County's smoking ban, set to take effect Jan. 2.
		A representative said the company, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., also likely paid for phone banks the Pennsylvania Tavern Association set up to try to block the ban before County Council passed it 14-1.
		The tobacco company's name does not appear on the paperwork, but it might pay "easily into the tens of thousands of dollars" to block anti-smoking legislation, said Edward L. Sweda, senior attorney at the Tobacco Control Resource Center in Boston.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06347/745661-85.stm (670 words)

	Tobacco Company Will Continue to Defend Lawsuit
		It must be remembered that the decision rendered today does not in any way find any tobacco company to be liable, but merely allows the action already taken by the provincial government to continue.
		As a tobacco company we operate under the strict regulation of both federal and provincial governments.
		This case is not about tobacco and it's not about health, it's about abuse of power and a grotesque cash grab by the government.
	www.tobacco.org /news/207102.html (339 words)

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