Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
When Florida's legislation reduced funding to $1 million annually five years later after the Tobacco Pilot Program was launched, Floridians passed a constitutional amendment in 2006, [3] which requires an annual appropriation of 15% of the gross 2005 tobacco settlement fund (adjusted for inflation) to provide money for a statewide tobacco ...
In the United States, smoker protection laws are state statutes that prevent employers from discriminating against employees for using tobacco products. Currently twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have such laws. Although laws vary from state to state, employers are generally prohibited from either refusing to hire or firing an ...
By changing the law to guarantee they would win in court, the states extorted a quarter-trillion-dollar settlement, which was passed along in higher cigarette prices. Basically, the tobacco companies had money; the states and their hired-gun attorneys wanted money; so the companies paid and the states collected.
Bank of America must be used to shelling out billions to settle class-action lawsuits by now. One settlement involving the company in 2012 stipulated it reimburse shareholders $2.43 billion for ...
A Florida jury awarded a smoker's widow one of the largest ever legal wins against a tobacco company - a whopping $23.6 billion in punitive damages. Cynthia Robinson sued the R. J. Reynolds ...
Smoking is prohibited within 20 feet (6.1 m) of the entrance/exit of a place where the law prohibits smoking indoors. [85] Fines range from $50 for a person caught smoking in violation of the law, to between $100 and $500 for an establishment caught allowing smoking in violation of the law. [86]
The anti-smoking workers are in the fourth year of a campaign to end smoking in Atlantic City's casinos that previously relied on political efforts to get lawmakers to change the law. But those ...
In 1988, Phillip Morris was quoted as saying: "Almost 200 lawsuits have been brought in the last five and a half years and the cigarette manufacturers have not ... paid a penny to settle one." [9] As of 1992, the law firms handling Cipollone and seven other tobacco litigation cases had "incurred approximately $1.2 million in out-of-pocket ...