Cigarette Makers Must Pay Growers in 14 States
From Associated Press
Cigarette makers must pay $424 million to tobacco growers in 14 states as part of an agreement reached in the wake of 1998’s multibillion-dollar anti-smoking settlement, North Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled.
The ruling reversed the decision of a lower court judge who sided with cigarette companies in finding that the tobacco-quota buyout approved by Congress last year ended their obligation to make the payments.
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