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» (7/26/00 ) New Report Uncovers Secret Campaign by Big Tobacco and Other Industries to Restrict Legal Rights » (7/14/00 ) Record-setting Jury Award Against Tobacco Industry in Miami Case is Just First Step in Legal Process » (10/29/98 ) Big Tobacco Lobbying Costs $81,000 Per Member of Congress in First Half of 1998 » (8/10/98 ) GOP House Leaders Cash in on Big Tobacco Dollars While Snuffing Out Legislation to Protect Children from Smoking » (6/17/98 ) Watch the Money, See the Votes: Republican Leadership Tries to Kill National Tobacco Control Legislation » (6/15/98 ) Campaign Cash at Work; Big Tobacco Buys Time to Stall Tobacco Legislation » (6/15/98 ) Campaign Cash at Work: Sen. Lott and Republican Leadership are Trying to Kill National Tobacco Control Legislation » (6/9/98 ) S.1415 Tobacco Control Legislation: Stop the Filibuster Tactics, Pass a Bill for Public Health » (5/21/98 ) Statement by Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook on the Senate Vote on Legal Immunity for Big Tobacco » (3/30/98 ) Statement by Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook on the Summary of Senate Commerce Committee’s Draft "Mark" of National Tobacco Legislation » (3/26/98 ) Statement by Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook on Federal Tobacco Legislation Video » (3/18/98 ) Big Tobacco’s Lobbying Expenses Hit $35.5 Million » (3/6/98 ) Constitutionality of First Amendment Restrictions on Tobacco Advertising » (2/13/98 ) Study Finds Pro-Tobacco Senators Received 15 Times As Much Tobacco PAC Money as Pro-Consumer Senators » (2/13/98 ) Statement of Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook On Tobacco’s Sweetheart Deal and the Industry’s Congressional Sweethearts » (1/22/98 ) Statement by Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook, Opposing the Tobacco Bailout and Joining "Save Lives, Not Tobacco" » (12/17/97 ) Big Tobacco's Lobbying Expenses Reach $15.8 Million » (9/17/97 ) Public Citizen Comments on President Clinton's Statement About the Tobacco Deal » (9/17/97 ) The Tobacco Deal: Document Disclosure Before Further Consideration » (6/20/97 ) Taxpayers Burned in Deal with the Devil

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