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Everything Possible To Encourage Addiction?

CBC | Posted 05.13.2013 | Canada Business
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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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Smokers Were 'Blind' If They Thought It Was Safe, Says Ex-Tobacco Exec

CP | Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.13.2012 | Canada Politics
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MONTREAL - A retired tobacco spokesman told a historic civil trial that people suing cigarette companies today must have been "blind" if they missed r...

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Historic Tobacco Case Lands In Court

CP | Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.11.2012 | Canada
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MONTREAL - Tobacco companies embroiled in a historic civil suit kicked off the trial Monday by arguing that smokers who get sick or can't kick the hab...

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