Minnesota's Tobacco Fight Sets National Legal Pace
Minnesota led a landmark tobacco settlement court challenge amid a long anti smoking tradition. Historians describe early bans and school curricula against tobacco, while state actions like the 1975 Clean Indoor Air Act and D Day campaigns helped shape national anti smoking policy.
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Anti-Cigarette League
No-Tobacco League
Minnesota
Berman
State Department of Education
C. Everett Koop
Monti
Judge opens tobacco document depositories to public
Minnesota judge rules the public may view more than 33 million internal tobacco industry pages. The ruling allows access to depositories in Minneapolis within 15 days and extends to a Guildford, England, site for three British defendants. Congressional committees gain access as talks on a nationwide settlement continue.
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Minneapolis
U.S
Congress
Minnesota
Hubert Humphrey Ili
Cello
Wendell Anderson
American Lung Association
American Cancer Society
Edward Devitt
Devitt
Ramsey County
Kenneth Fiick
Fitzpatrick
Guildford
England
Hubert Humphrey III
Humphrey
Congressional
Tornado devastates Mattoon area injuring three
Early morning tornado flattened at least 18 houses three businesses and an apartment in Mattoon Illinois a fourth of a mile wide and nearly a mile long with three people injured Dozens of other buildings damaged no warning issued according to emergency coordinator Ed Gardner The line of storms moved across the Midwest with additional twisters reported in Indiana and wind gusts above 50 mph in parts of Michigan Ohio and Michigan power outages affected about 5500 customers nationwide.
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Mattoon
Ill
Midwest
Ed Gardner
Gardner
Ana
Illinois
Michigan
Northwastern
Ohio
Harlan
Ind
Allen County
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Whitley County
Land
Detroit
National Weather Service
Kentucky
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ST. Paul
University of Minnesota
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Gandy
Ervin Wellness Centers
Se Habla Espanol
Tower
Ste
Ervin
Fox
Gary Kincaid
Mth
Christy Gentry Vennetrate
Eas
Andy Ervin
Calvin Klein
Dillard's
Dillard’s
Visa
Mastercard
American Express
Discover
Diners Club
Music City Mall
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