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Smokeless tobacco, sometimes called chewing tobacco or dip tobacco, poses significant health risks including addiction. It is not a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes. While smoking tobacco is ...

Lise Blais, widow of plaintiff Jean-Yves Blais, wipes her eye as her son, Martin, looks on during a news conference, in Montreal, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. Tobacco companies have offered to pay nearly ...

A plan for Canada's three biggest tobacco companies to pay out $32.5 billion to provinces, territories and smokers is now in the works, but some hurdles remain before any money starts flowing.

Three tobacco companies proposed on Thursday to pay $32.5 billion to settle legal claims in Canada, stemming from decades of disputes. The proposal remains subject to further negotiation and court ...

Cigarette makers Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco will pay C$32.5 billion ($23.6 billion) to settle a long-running tobacco lawsuit in Canada, as part of a court-appointed ...

Proposal calls for compensation for smokers as well as governments Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of ...

The CDC released data Thursday that shows teen use of at least one tobacco product — such as cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, nicotine pouches and hookahs — fell to the lowest level since the survey ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. OTTAWA — Tobacco companies are set to pay out $32.5 billion to settle class-action lawsuits with provinces and individual smokers after decades of litigation ...

Three large tobacco companies are set to pay $32.5-billion to settle legal claims, including a landmark 2015 Quebec court judgment that concluded the companies did not warn their customers about ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The tobacco industry is close to ending a long-running Canadian lawsuit, after a court-appointed mediator ...