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Jump to full article: Reuters, 2001-01-24
Author: Michael Connor
Intro: The central Asian nations of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday filed U.S. lawsuits in Miami, claiming Marlboros maker Philip Morris and other American tobacco companies should pay the medical costs of sick smokers in the former Soviet republics . . .
``The republics ... are seeking judgments covering the hundreds of millions of dollars spent treating smokers who developed various forms of tobacco-related illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, emphysema and birth defects,'' lawyers for the countries said in a news release.
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Jump to full article: AP, 2001-01-24
Intro: Following other countries, two Central Asian nations are suing the U.S. tobacco industry for the cost of smoking-related illnesses
"We believe the tobacco cartel intentionally targeted these developing nations, where most of the citizens are poor, undereducated and unaware of the dangers of nicotine addiction," said Sonny Holtzman, attorney for the former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
The case was filed in Florida Circuit Court in Miami-Dade County, which produced a record $145 billion award for Florida smokers last year. Similar suits filed in Miami by Russia and Brazilian states have been moved by the industry to federal court and consolidated in Washington.
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Jump to full article: B&W NewsReal, 2000-11-28
Intro: Kyrgyzstan has reached first place among the CIS countries in the production of aromatized tobacco. This has been announced at an international scientific research conference entitled: "The current state of the tobacco sector and more scientific back-up for it in the Russian Federation and other CIS countries". The Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the all- union scientific research institute of tobacco, makhorka and tobacco goods, which is located in Krasnodar, are the organizers of the conference. . .
The press service of the Kyrgyztamekesi [Kyrgyz Tobacco] state joint-stock company reported that during the discussion of [tobacco] selection work and its results throughout the CIS, it was recommended to add precisely the Kyrgyz product as a component to the cigarettes which were being produced by CIS tobacco enterprises. The main criterion is the low content of nicotine and harmful resin in tobacco leaves.
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