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• Enforcement unit obtains $2.6 million in tobacco judgments  

Two tobacco companies must remove their cigarettes from Kansas distribution for the next two years as part of a $2.6 million judgment against them announced today by the Attorney General’s Office.

As a result of the judgment, Veneto, S.A. and Tapti Tobacco Products, Pvt., Ltd., are barred from selling the Nova or American Hero brand cigarettes within state lines.

The penalties resulted from the companies failing to pay into the state escrow fund created as a result of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement reached in 1998 after 46 states, including Kansas, sued major tobacco companies seeking to recoup the costs of treating sick smokers. State Medicaid programs spend millions yearly for treatment of tobacco-related illness.

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