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...nicotine. Tobacco companies have never paid a cent for health problems incurred by smoking. Fortunately, now that the Liggett agreement will unearth older documents, the states may have more fire-power. But what will be the end to this war? Will states be happy with the destruction of Philip Morris, which has 48 percent of the market share? Even if the monolith did go bankrupt, another company would rise to take its place. No matter what path the government takes to its goal of recouping on Medicaid money spent on smoking damage, ultimately it will have to focus on young...
Liggett, a company with a negative net worth and shrinking business, is the door prosecutors hope to walk through to get at the likes of Philip Morris, the maker of Marlboro, which controls half the tobacco market as the center of a diversified empire. Last year Philip Morris made $6.3 billion worldwide on revenues of $69.2 billion. What excited prosecutors most was the prospect of getting their hands on mountains of documents that Liggett agreed to surrender and that they believe could incriminate all the other cigarette makers. They have already seen a slew of Liggett files, the product...
...stay off the subject because they feel they're going to have to climb a wall of popular skepticism." A spokesman for the United Methodist Publishing House is reluctant to comment at all about heaven, explaining that the subject is "controversial." A brother in faith, the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, whose Foundry Methodist Church is up the street from the White House, explains bluntly, "I'm not interested in speculating on the architecture or the geography. I don't think of heaven as a specified place in the universe to which we could somehow go if we could find...
...about time we started seeing girls as the stars of adventure stories, which is why it's been such a pleasure to see the recent surge in books featuring young girls as such heroes. Consider, for example, Jostein Gaarder's erudite epic Sophie's World or Philip Pullman's Carnegie Award-winning fantasy The Golden Compass. Both of these books feature young women as the epic heroes of their own journeys of exploration and education, both were first released in Europe and both have a thing about Scandinavia and snow. Brian Hall's new coming-of-age epic, The Saskiad...
...evidence that tobacco companies are in some way responsible for the health-care costs states are suing to recover. And the fact that Liggett will turn over hundreds of thousands of insider documents that states hope will prove severely damaging to the tobacco industry had plaintiffs almost giddy. While Philip Morris won a temporary restraining order to prevent Liggett from turning over the papers, Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore said that won't make a bit of difference to other judges around the country. In roughly three months, Mississippi's case against the other four companies will go to trial...