In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute
worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question the science linking secondhand smoke to health risks, and lobbied against government public health reforms.
New York has been in arbitration over an earlier payment due in 2003 as a result of a landmark
deal with the tobacco companies known as the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
New York state had been in arbitration over an earlier payment due in 2003 as a result of a landmark deal
with the tobacco companies known as the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
«Imagine if I could get ten or 15 cities to all sue and put the same pressure on the oil companies that we
did with tobacco companies and create some kind of massive settlement,» he said.
Smoke but No Fire 9 September 2005 Some of the money states received from their settlements
with tobacco companies was supposed to pay for research.