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Federal Judge Won’t Delay Decision in Long-Standing Tobacco Case While Other Suits Pending
January 27, 2012 A federal judge on Thursday said she won’t delay an order in a 12-year-old lawsuit against the tobacco industry while other courts decide newer cases challenging tobacco marketing restrictions and graphic cigarette warning labels. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler in Washington issued the decision in a case in which America’s largest cigarette makers — including Philip Morris USA, maker of top-selling Marlboro cigarettes — were found to have concealed the dangers of smoking for decades. Kessler has said she wants the industry to pay for ads, in broadcast and print. She has not said what corrective statements should be included in those ads, where they must be placed or for how long. That’s the decision Kessler was considering delaying.
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