http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/lawsuit/ramey.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/004035.htm http://tobacco.org/news/19266.html Former Miss America Venus Ramey is taking on the U.S. government over its tobacco policy. Acting as her own lawyer and seeking $300 billion in damages, Ramey filed a federal lawsuit last Friday against the U.S. Justice Department. Ramey, who was Miss America 1944, is now 74 and living on a farm north of Eubank. She wants to save the tobacco industry from possible extinction and get farmers back on their feet. . . Ramey, who represented the District of Columbia in the Miss America pageant, said her family has grown tobacco for 350 years and she has been a tobacco farmer for 50 years. . . The lawsuit accuses the government and President Clinton of trying ``to destroy a successful, lucrative American industry.'' Akron Beacon Journal Thu, 08 Apr 1999 04:00:00 GMT