October 30, 1997
Tobacco Funds to Pay for Disease Research
Four major tobacco companies have agreed to spend $300-million to create a non-profit group to study early detection and cure of diseases associated with smoking.
The agreement was part of a $349-million settlement announced this month that ended a landmark class-action lawsuit over secondhand smoke.
Some 60,000 non-smoking flight attendants sued the tobacco companies -- Brown & Williamson, Lorillard, Philip Morris, and R. J. Reynolds -- in Dade
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