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Canada's three main tobacco companies are set to do battle in a Montreal court on Monday in the biggest civil case in Canadian history. More...

Tobacco companies suffered a major defeat in Canada on Friday when the Supreme Court ruled the federal government is not liable for damages from health-related lawsuits, possibly amounting to many billions of dollars. The tobacco industry -- facing suits from several Canadian provinces seeking...

Alberta's Montana First Nation, Chief Carolyn Buffalo and Quebec company Rainbow Tobacco have filed a lawsuit demanding the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission return 75,000 cartons of cigarettes seized from a Quonset hut in Hobbema, Alta., last month. In the statement of claim filed Friday in...

Tobacco is fanning the flames of a dispute between what native people say is their sacred right and what the province maintains is within its jurisdiction. The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations says the provincial government doesn't have the authority to apply its tobacco tax laws on...

When I came to China 39 years ago, airlines and hotels gave away cigarettes for free. Today, smoking remains a stubborn habit in China, where more than 300 million people are regular smokers. -- When I first came to China 39 years ago, airlines distributed cigarettes free of charge during...

BEIJING – China's addiction to huge revenues from its state-owned tobacco monopoly is hindering anti-smoking measures, potentially costing millions of lives in the country with the world's largest number of smokers, experts warned Thursday. The health and other costs of smoking already exceed...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/11/14/candiotti.smoking.labels.cnn Washington -- The federal government unveiled new proposed regulations Wednesday mandating "bolder health warnings" on cigarette advertisements and packages, according to a news release from the Department of Health and...

Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Did Big Tobacco finally get burned? WASHINGTON, Hidden among the thousands of petitions the U.S. Supreme Court rejected before recessing for the summer was a case so spectacular -- the case against Big Tobacco -- you wonder why its outcome isn't drawing more...

Doctors call for federal tobacco strategy WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- The American College of Physicians is calling for a comprehensive U.S. strategy to control tobacco use, rather than the current piecemeal state action. Dr. J. Fred Ralston Jr., president of the American College of Physicians, said...

Tobacco shop given stay from PACT Act BUFFALO, N.Y., (UPI) -- A federal judge in western New York granted a tobacco retailer a temporary reprieve from a new federal tobacco law that requires sellers to pay local taxes. The Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act that went into effect Tuesday...

FDA marks Tobacco Control Act anniversary WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration marked the first anniversary of the U.S. Tobacco Control Act, which gave it regulatory control of tobacco products. Under that law -- signed by President Obama last June 22 -- the FDA put...

Montreal police arrest 17 in tobacco ring MONTREAL, (UPI) -- Canadian police said they arrested 17 suspects in a ring selling contraband cigars and cigarillos. Police conducted 52 raids Wednesday in Montreal and several other locations and exposed a group that allegedly has criminally bypassed...

House votes to grant FDA authority over tobacco Module body 33 minutes ago By Lisa Richwine WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A measure giving the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of cigarettes cleared the U.S. House of Representatives on...