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Bush's Budget Underfunds Tobacco Lawsuit
April 25, 2001

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Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department said that President Bush's proposed budget does not include enough funds to continue the federal government's lawsuit against the tobacco industry, Reuters reported April 25.

According to lawyers involved in the tobacco litigation, an estimated $57.6 million is needed in the next fiscal year to continue the lawsuit against the tobacco industry. Bush's tobacco-litigation budget is just $1.8 million.

The Justice Department filed the lawsuit in 1999 against Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Loews Corp's Lorillard Tobacco Co. Inc., Vector Group Ltd's Liggett Group Inc., the Council for Tobacco Research U.S.A. Inc., and the Tobacco Institute Inc.

The trial is scheduled to begin on July 15, 2003.

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