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[Australia, Canada] Tobacco Plants Lead the Way to Ebola Cure
Nicotiana benthamiana, already used to produce West Nile virus antibodies, offers similar protection against the devastating Ebola virus
Oct 6, 2014
Canada Free Press (ca)
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Oct 6, 2014 18:08
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[Canada] Clearing the smoke surrounding First Nations cigarettes / Who can buy what at First Nations smoke shops
O’TOOLE ACKNOWLEDGES there’s a loophole.... “I think both parties are responsible...Are non-natives breaking the law by taking advantage of the system? Yes, they are.” And, are people without a First Nations background aware they’re breaking the law whe
Dec 1, 2014
DurhamRegion.com (ca)
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Dec 1, 2014 12:21
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Thousands of tobacco lawsuits wait for a verdict in Florida ($$)
Dec 21, 2012
Business Journal of Jacksonville and Northeast Florida
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Dec 21, 2012 08:07
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[Florida] US Supreme Court deals devastating blow to the cigarette industry and settlement value of nearly 8,000 pending Engle cases rises dramatically
Tobacco Product Liability Project’s Senior Attorney, Ed Sweda, said,”the tobacco companies’ long-repeated claim that the procedure for trying Engle Progeny cases violates their Due Process rights is now legally dead. The rights of the victims of these co
Oct 7, 2013
Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI)
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Oct 8, 2013 14:39
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[Florida] Liggett Reaches $110M Deal To End Most Engle Smoker Suits ($$)
Under the terms of the deal, Liggett parent company Vector Group Ltd. will cough up a lump sum of about $61 million and pay an additional $49 million over the next 15 years. In return, more than 4,900 individual plaintiffs who were part of the erstwhile
Oct 23, 2013
Law360
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Oct 24, 2013 03:29
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[Florida] In Engle Suits, Home Court Advantage Hinges On 11th Circ. ($$)
Following oral arguments this week, the Eleventh Circuit is set to decide whether to send more than 1,700 Engle progeny lawsuits against tobacco companies to Florida state court, potentially putting a huge slice of the litigation on turf more favorable to
Mar 28, 2013
Law360
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Mar 28, 2013 18:56
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[Florida] Cigarette Makers Launch New Bid to End Engle Woes ($$)
Tobacco companies facing thousands of smoker lawsuits in Florida filed their ninth batch of U.S. Supreme Court petitions last week, claiming that the Florida courts are trampling on their constitutional rights in the so-called Engle progeny litigation.
Apr 3, 2014
Litigation Daily
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Apr 7, 2014 14:37
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[Florida] RD Legal Offers Post-Settlement Lawsuit Financing on R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Settlements
RD Legal can provide R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Liggett Group attorneys and their clientele with post-settlement funding, which provides immediate capital on settlements that are slow to pay. Legal funding does not require any kind of payments until t
Jan 4, 2013
PR Newswire
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Jan 4, 2013 18:46
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[Canada, USA, North Carolina] VIDEO: Police arrest 28 in tobacco busts
Police have arrested 28 suspects and are on the hunt for seven others in a major tobacco raid Wednesday. Police raided 32 locations and seized $450,000 in cash, ... Surete du Quebec Sgt. Joyce Kemp said the bulk tobacco which made its way into Canada
Apr 30, 2014
Canadian Television (CTV) (ca)
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Apr 30, 2014 23:03
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[Canada] Vancouver’s experimental cigarette-recycling program backfires
In November of last year, the city installed 110 cigarette-butt receptacles in several downtown locations. But the move produced unintended consequences, prompting Vancouver Coastal Health officials to bring them to the city’s attention. “We were concer
Jun 4, 2014
Georgia Straight (ca)
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Jun 4, 2014 14:51