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• Mass. tobacco chewers win $10.6M settlement  

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Stephen Neel is expected to approve a $10.65 million Mass. settlement today of a class-action lawsuit filed against the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. for price fixing.

"This is the largest settlement per consumer in the country in a case involving price fixing for smokeless tobacco," said Robert Bonsignore, the attorney who represented Massachusetts consumers. "It wasn't bad enough that they have more than 80 percent of the market share on a product that is more addictive than heroin, they also fixed the price."

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