Can you do well by doing good? Investing in socially responsible...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 4, 1996 ;     603 words ......latest news on the tobacco companies and decided you...funds that use ``socially responsible'' guidelines...are those of tobacco companies, says Peter D...advisers scoff at socially responsible investing, saying...an index of ``socially responsible'' ...

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Statement: Tobacco Companies Can Afford...

U.S. Newswire;  August 6, 2003 ;     384 words ......proposals: "R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies are crying wolf when they claim that...There should be no confusion: The tobacco companies will fund this proposal, just as...just a few cents a pack, each of the tobacco companies could easily raise the money needed...

MONEY KEY ISSUE IN NEGOTIATIONS ON TOBACCO COMPANIES'...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 19, 1997 ;     431 words ......hammer out a workable settlement on tobacco companies' liability are expected to reconvene...executives from the two largest U.S. tobacco companies, Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds, started...general about three weeks ago. The tobacco companies have offered to withdraw cigarette...

POLITICIANS, HEED WARNING OF TOBACCO COMPANIES' LOSS.(IDEAS)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  August 13, 2000 ;     584 words ......dollar penalty against the American tobacco companies in the Florida class action suit...by those dedicated to holding the tobacco companies responsible for their actions. The...crimes committed by the American tobacco companies than anyone else in America. In phase...

FED: Class action prepares to take on tobacco companies

AAP General News (Australia);  March 3, 1999 ;     537 words ......Class action prepares to take on tobacco companies By Katrina Willis CANBERRA, March...launch a class action against three tobacco companies. Federal Health Minister Michael...whether the government could sue tobacco companies, although his office said this did...

Law: Smoking can seriously damage your litigation In the US, claimants...

The Independent - London;  May 30, 2000 ;     700+ words ...LITIGATION AGAINST tobacco companies in the UK by cancer victims...health authorities took on the tobacco companies and won billions of dollars...liability or fault of the tobacco companies and whether or not they were...

Tobacco companies fight British anti-smoking report

AP Online;  July 6, 1998 ;     302 words ......Online 07-06-1998 LONDON (AP) _ Four tobacco companies won clearance Monday to fight back...inflict ``commercial damage'' on the tobacco companies, and they should have been given...an order quashing the report. The tobacco companies, who control 90 percent of Britain...

Fed: Tobacco companies misleading over mild cigarettes: ACCC

AAP General News (Australia);  February 15, 2005 ;     257 words ......Australia) 02-15-2005 Fed: Tobacco companies misleading over mild cigarettes...ACCC ADELAIDE, Feb 15 AAP - Tobacco companies had been deceiving smokers...legal advice was clear that tobacco companies were breaching the Trades...

Tobacco companies sued worldwide.

NPN International;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......number of lawsuits against the world's tobacco companies is increasing -- and so is the number...products. The claims allege that the tobacco companies named in the suits hid the dangers...smokers, ex-smokers and their families. Tobacco companies have spent millions of dollars, not...

ATTORNEY GENERAL BAKER FILES SUIT AGAINST THIRTY-ONE TOBACCO COMPANIES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......against thirty-one of the nation's tobacco companies, charging that they had not complied...between the State of Georgia and the tobacco companies in a 1998 nationwide settlement...46 states and the nation's major tobacco companies provided for the payment of damages...

Tobacco companies aren't hurt enough by deal, complains Doyle `I don't see...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  August 21, 1997 ;     436 words ...The proposed settlement with tobacco companies being sued to recover state health...be justice," a declaration to the tobacco companies that "you guys did wrong, and you'...The proposed settlement calls for tobacco companies to pay $368.5 billion over 25 years...

Fed: Call for levy on tobacco companies

AAP General News (Australia);  April 12, 2002 ;     254 words ...00-00-0000 Fed: Call for levy on tobacco companies SYDNEY, April 12 AAP - The NSW Cancer...federal government to impose a levy on tobacco companies to fund an anti-smoking foundation...levy of one cent per cigarette on tobacco companies to set up the foundation. By imposing...

Navajo Nation Sues Tobacco Companies to Test Sovereignty.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 16, 1999 ;     700+ words ......has challenged the nation's major tobacco companies in a lawsuit that will test both...filed suit Aug. 11 against nine major tobacco companies using a tobacco liability law passed...know that other tribes have sued the tobacco companies in other venues, Navajo Nation President...

Congress appears eager to strike a deal with tobacco companies.(Originated...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 3, 1998 ;     700+ words ......First Amendment protects the right of tobacco companies to advertise may drive even the most...impossible without the cooperation of tobacco companies, experts told a Senate committee...does not pass a tobacco bill, the tobacco companies have said they will continue to exercise...

B.C. FILES SUIT AGAINST TOBACCO COMPANIES

United Press International;  November 13, 1998 ;     258 words ......11-13-1998 B.C. files suit against tobacco companies VANCOUVER, B.C., Nov. 12 (UPI...followed through on threats to sue tobacco companies by filing suit against three top...Thursday, saying the suit alleges that ``tobacco companies knew of the addictive nature and...