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Thursday | CSP

Star Scientific Files Motion for Judgment, New Trial

Star Scientific Inc. announced that its trial counsel has filed a motion for judgment as a matter of law and in the alternative, for a new trial, with the U.S. District Court in Maryland.

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Related Topix: Tobacco, Star Scientific, Winston-Salem, NC, Greensboro Metro, Salem, NC

Thu Jun 25, 2009

PR-inside.com

Fitch Affirms Reynolds American's IDR at 'BBB-'; Outlook Stable

Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings of Reynolds American Inc. and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of RAI, as follows.

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Related Topix: Tobacco, Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration

Business Wire

Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing

SIMSBURY, Conn.-- --Hartford Life and the West Virginia State Treasurers Office announced the enrollment the 100,000th beneficiary in the college savings program yesterday at a ceremony at the University - LEXINGTON, Mass.-- --TARIS Biomedical, a specialty pharmaceutical company pioneering the field of drug-device convergence for targeted ...

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Related Topix: Tobacco, Cherry Hill, NJ, Representative Ben Ray Lujan, US Politics, US News, Senator Tom Udall, Tom Udall, US Senate, US House of Representatives, Representative Martin Heinrich, Democrat

Tue Jun 16, 2009

News Chief

RJ Reynolds wins patent fight with Star Scientific

Published: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 6:51 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 6:51 p.m. A federal jury ruled on Tuesday that RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.

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Related Topix: Tobacco, Star Scientific, Petersburg, VA

Fri Jun 12, 2009

WXII12

R.J. Reynolds Recycling Old Storage Unit Materials

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in Winston-Salem is tearing down and building up at the same time.

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Related Topix: Tobacco

WBUR-AM Boston

Carroll: New tobacco regulations, same smoke and mirrors

Ever since the Surgeon General declared in 1964 that smoking carries severe health risks, there have been calls for the Food & Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Smoking, Medicine, Health, Food and Drug Administration, Tobacco, Food Science

Wed Jun 10, 2009

National Politics

Senate bill takes aim at dissolvable tobacco; critics call smoke-free product 'tobacco candy'

They're the newest smoke-free tobacco products - dissolvable pellets or strips that don't require users to chew or even spit.

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Related Topix: Tobacco, Marketing, Family, Kids, US Politics, US News, Senator Jeff Merkley, US Senate, Democrat, Sherrod Brown, US House of Representatives

Tue Jun 09, 2009

Philip Brooks' Patent Infringement Up...

Largest U.S. Patent Infringement Case Ever is Controversial Too

A reader alerted me that the jury in the Star Scientific v. R.J. Reynolds case should get the case this week.

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Related Topix: Tobacco, Star Scientific, Smoking, Medicine, Health, Baltimore, MD, Inventions, Science / Technology

Sat Jun 06, 2009

CBS News

Defending Big Tobacco Is A Lonely Fight These Days

Like smoking, defending tobacco just isn't cool anymore. Just ask GOP Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, home to tobacco giants RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Richard Burr, US News, US Senate, Republican, Smoking, Medicine, Health, Senator Kay Hagan, Democrat, North Carolina, North Carolina Government, Tobacco

Wed Jun 03, 2009

Mooresville Tribune

RJR plans to appeal Florida jury's ruling on damages from smoker's lawsuit

Only time will tell if a new bar has been set regarding damages from smokers' lawsuits in Florida.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Tobacco, Pensacola, FL, Pensacola Metro

Tue Jun 02, 2009

CSP

R.J. Reynolds Launches Retailer Website

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has launched www.EngageRJRT.com , a new password-protected website that provides the company's retail partners with "anytime" access to tobacco category information, as well as consumer and industry data that retailers can use to engage their adult tobacco consumers.

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Related Topix: Tobacco

CSP

FDA Bad News for Snus?

The subject of putting tobacco under the control of the federal Food & Drug Administration has divided the industry.

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Related Topix: Food and Drug Administration, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Edward Kennedy, Democrat, Sherrod Brown, US House of Representatives, Tobacco, Altria Group

Mon Jun 01, 2009

Asbury Park Press Online

Tobacco-maker ordered to pay $30 million to smoker's widow

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the second-biggest U.S. cigarette maker, was instructed by a Florida jury to pay $30 million to a woman whose husband died of lung cancer after years of smoking, according to a lawyer A six-person jury today in state court in Pensacola, Fla., told R.J. Reynolds to pay Hilda Martin $25 million in punitive damages to ...

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Related Topix: Tobacco, Health, Lung Cancer, Smoking, Medicine, Pensacola, FL, Pensacola Metro

Sat May 30, 2009

ABC Action News

Company under fire over tobacco lollipops

Actually this YouTuber's joking--he's demonstrating Snus. Tea-bags, filled with mint-flavored tobacco.

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Related Topix: Wisdom Teeth, Health, Smoking, Medicine, Tobacco

Tue May 26, 2009

The Business Journal of the Greater T...

RJR considers options in racketeering case

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. says is considering whether to appeal a federal court ruling last week that upheld a racketeering verdict against U.S. tobacco companies.

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Related Topix: Tobacco, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, Smoking, Medicine, Health

Winston-Salem Journal

U.S. senators attack Reynolds' alternative

Two U.S. senators are aiming to snuff out dissolvable smokeless-tobacco products before they can get a toehold in the U.S. market.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US Politics, US News, Senator Jeff Merkley, US Senate, Democrat, Sherrod Brown, US House of Representatives, Tobacco, Marketing, Senator Kay Hagan

Mon May 25, 2009

CBS 2

Parents Say New Tobacco Products Look Like Candy

New smokeless tobacco products, being tested here in the valley, may look too much like candy.

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Related Topix: Nicotine, NicoDerm, Nicotine (generic), Medicine, Medication, Tobacco, Marketing, Smoking, Health

Fri May 22, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Will Seek Further Review of Government Lawsuit

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is disappointed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed many of the findings of the district court in the lawsuit United States v. Philip Morris et al, particularly the finding that cigarette manufacturers violated federal racketeering laws.

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Related Topix: Tobacco, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, US News

Wed May 20, 2009

Detroit Free Press

Tobacco candy catches eye of Senate

WASHINGTON - Legislation the Senate is considering to regulate tobacco products under the Food and Drug Administration includes a measure that would mandate the study of a new product: tobacco candy.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Tobacco, US Politics, US News, Senator Jeff Merkley, US Senate, Democrat, Smoking, Medicine, Health

Wed May 13, 2009

Winston-Salem Journal

RJR ad from 2007 violated settlement, judge says

A Pennsylvania judge ruled yesterday that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. violated the Master Settlement Agreement with its involvement in a 2007 magazine pullout that contained cartoon images.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Tobacco, Smoking, Medicine, Health

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