41.   Although tobacco lawsuits have been fought for years in the United States, the law is not tested in Britain.

42.   Ashcroft inherited the tobacco lawsuit from the Clinton administration.

43.   But he adds that he thought much the same of the tobacco lawsuits.

44.   Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, one of the state attorneys general who spearheaded their tobacco lawsuit, urged lawmakers to force the Justice Department to continue litigating.

45.   Companies have raised cigarette prices to pay settlement costs for tobacco lawsuits, economists said.

46.   Lawyers score huge fees in tobacco lawsuit.