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Two former Soviet republics file anti-tobacco suits in Miami 

The central Asian nations of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday filed U.S. lawsuits in Miami, claiming Marlboros maker Philip Morris and other American tobacco companies should pay the medical costs of sick smokers in the former Soviet republics . . .

``The republics ... are seeking judgments covering the hundreds of millions of dollars spent treating smokers who developed various forms of tobacco-related illnesses, including cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, emphysema and birth defects,'' lawyers for the countries said in a news release.

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