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EDITORIAL: Up in smoke 

The governments of five nations Guatemala, Bolivia, Panama, Venezuela and Nicaragua quickly signed on, but none of the nations was willing to take a chance on filing a lawsuit against the tobacco companies in their own courts.

     There was a certain method to their madness. . .

 However, the foreign governments that American tobacco lawyers trundled into U.S. courts to sue cigarette manufacturers were dealt a setback lasy week when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed the case in a unanimous joint ruling. This is all to the good as these cases were without legal merit and would have set a dangerous precedent if allowed to stand.

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