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B.C. wants to be able to recover tobacco-related health-care costs
Jump to full article: Vancouver (BC) Sun (ca), 2003-11-24
Author: Matthew Ramsey
Intro: The smouldering five-year battle between the province and Canadian big tobacco companies flares up again today in the B.C. Court of Appeal.
The provincial government is appealing a ruling by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ronald Holmes in June of last year dismissing B.C.'s second attempted lawsuit to recover tobacco-related health-care costs from three tobacco companies (Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., JTI-Macdonald Corp. and Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc.), the council that represents those companies and five non-Canadian tobacco companies.
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