The Partnership was created later as a pilot program using separate payments from cigarette makers. When the money for the program ran out, then-Attorney General Mike Moore, who filed the tobacco lawsuit, obtained a December 2000 court order from Chancery Judge Jaye Bradley that directed $20 million a year of Mississippi's annual settlement payments to the Partnership. Mississippi in 1997 settled its lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which was filed to recover public costs of treating...

Tobacco industry using movies to recruit young smokers: Experts 30/05/2007 - 11:47:28 The tobacco industry is using cigarette advertising in shops and PG-rated Hollywood films to deliberately target children, a leading expert claimed today. Professor Ken Warner warned that point of sale advertising in shops is one method to lure teens to buy tobacco. He said one third of teenagers who saw more than 150 scenes of smoking in films in cinemas, on video or on television, had tried smoking....

Hornback, who also is a grain and tobacco grower, said the tobacco -- except for plants set recently -- is OK for now. Without considerable rain in the next three weeks, there could be significant grain crop losses, he said. The lack of serious rain in Kentucky has farmers worried about their crops and water systems in danger of running short. Drought dogs Kentucky farmers Rain needed soon to stem crop loss. Hornback said if it doesn't rain in the next couple weeks, crop losses could be...

INDIGENOUS agro-business dealer Farmers World has started distributing tractors and various other farming implements which it acquired from China to tobacco and other farmers throughout the country. Speaking at the programme's official launch yesterday, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono said the tractors would go a long way in helping the country achieve mechanisation, stressing it was imperative that all precautionary measures be taken to ascertain the suitability of the...

A proposal to ban most workplace smoking _ including in restaurants _ passed the House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday despite several members' background in tobacco farming. House Agriculture Chairman Stratton Bone, a former tobacco farmer, acknowledged that the bill that passed 12-2 "is not perfect,"but reflects a compromise needed to move the measure forward. He is no longer involved in tobacco farming. Bredesen called the bill that passed out of the Agriculture Committee a...