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Everything Possible To Encourage Addiction?

CBC | Posted 05.13.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Tobacco Class Action, Jti-Macdonald, Montreal, Video, Montreal Tobacco Lawsuit, Canada Tobacco Lawuit, Imperial Tobacco, Tobacco Lawsuit Canada, Class Action Tobacco, Tobacco Lawsuit, Jacques Lacoursiere, Tobacco Lawsuit Montreal, Rothmans, Benson Hedges, Cbc, Canada Business News

Three of Canada's tobacco giants began their defence Monday against a $27-billion class-action lawsuit in Montreal by calling a witness who said the d...

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Quebecois Smokers Don't Have Much Else to Live For

Yoni Goldstein | Posted 05.15.2012 | Canada
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Yoni Goldstein

At first, I was rather annoyed at the two million Quebecers who are seeking reparations from Big Tobacco in a class-action lawsuit to the tune of $27 billion. These people, I told myself, are reaching for a scapegoat to mask their own poor decisions, and worse, expect to cash in on those mistakes.

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Big Tobacco Will Try To Get $50 Billion Ontario Lawsuit Dismissed: Group

CP | Will Campbell, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.21.2011 | Canada Business
Read More: Non-Smokers Rights Association, Jti-Macdonald, Dalton Mcguinty, Big Tobacco, Rothmans Benson & Hedges, Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco Canada, Tobacco Industry, Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, Tobacco, Tobacco Comanies, Canada Business News

TORONTO - Tobacco companies targeted in a $50-billion lawsuit by the Ontario government are expected to argue they're outside the province's jurisdict...

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