| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 33 The FDA, tobacco regulation and state lawsuits |
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| The FDA, tobacco regulation and state lawsuits: State Lawsuits |
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| The state of Mississippi joined Florida, Minnesota, and West Virginia in filing suit |
| against the tobacco industry to pay for the medical bills of the state's Medicaid |
| patients who have required care for tobacco-related illnesses. "For decades, the |
| tobacco cartel has conspired intentionally, fraudulently, and maliciously to mislead the |
| public in order to peddle defective products they know are addictive and deadly", said |
| Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore. "This lawsuit is based on a simple notion: |
| you caused the health crisis; you pay for it. The free ride is over. It's time these |
| billionaire tobacco companies start paying what they rightfully owe to Mississippi |
| taxpayers." |
| Lancet, July 23, 1994, p. 253, New York Times, May 24, 1994, p. A12, ad San |
| Francisco Chronicle, December 21, 1995 |
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| Philip Morris admitted that it organized Mississippi businesses to fund Governor Kirk |
| Fordice's legal fight to block the state's Medicaid lawsuit, which was settled out of |
| court in 1997. |
| ANR Update, Spring 1997 |
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| Four major tobacco companies agreed to pay Mississippi $3.4 billion over 25 years, |
| including $170 million immediately, to settle the state's lawsuit over health care costs |
| caused by smoking. |
| New York Times, July 4, 1997 |
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| Florida in 1994 introduced legislation, the Medicaid Third Party Recovery Act, |
| seeking to hold the tobacco industry liable for the state's cost of treating |
| smoking-related illnesses in Medicaid patients, a sum amounting to $1.2 billion since |
| 1989. Governor Lawton Chiles commented, "We're going to take the Marlboro man |
| to court. With this law, Florida sends a loud and clear message to the tobacco giants |
| that they will be held accountable for sponsoring sickness and death." |
| Associated Press, May 27, 1994, and Wall Street Journal, May 3, 1994, p. A3 |
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