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• Cigarette Makers Will Appeal Racketeering Loss to Supreme Court  

Altria Group Inc.,Reynolds American Inc. and other U.S. cigarette makers signaled that they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling barring them from selling cigarettes as “light” or “low-tar.”

Altria, the biggest U.S. cigarette maker, and the other companies asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington yesterday to delay implementation of its May 22 decision against them until the Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case.

“Defendants would be required to incur substantial, unrecoverable expenses to comply with the district court’s injunctions,” including the order barring the use of “light” or “low-tar” to describe their products, the defendants claimed in their request.

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