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Tobacco industry leader blasts lawsuit by growers 

Tobacco farmers who have filed a $69 billion lawsuit claiming that cigarette makers are trying to put them out of business are motivated by greed, the head of the National Tobacco Council says.

A class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court alleges that the companies misled farmers into helping them stop congressional legislation in 1998 that would have given growers $28 billion. The companies later reached a settlement with the states that will provide growers with much less -- $5.15 billion over 12 years.

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