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Cigarette makers lose in racketeering suit

A federal judge ruled that Altria Group's Philip Morris USA and other U.S. cigarette makers violated anti-racketeering laws by marketing low-tar cigarettes as healthier alternatives to full-flavored brands. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler, while deciding the Justice Department had proved its claims at a nine-month trial that ended in June 2005, declined to order the ...

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