Tobacco Product Manufacturing

Raise on the Rooftop

Ciresi, Over and Out

We Smoked 'Em

Court of appeals agrees: City Pages can examine tobacco settlement records

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

A longtime antismoking advocate just says no to billboards

Smoke and Mirrors

Two years after picking billions of dollars out of Big Tobacco's pocket, state officials are still having trouble polishing their next trick: Figuring out how to spend it

Butt Ugly

Minnesota's deal with Big Tobacco was supposed to be worth $6 billion. But what if the golden goose lays an egg?

Nicotine Fit

He's been thrown out of court on his ear, but Roger Conant is still railing about the legal fees from the tobacco settlement

Chain Smoking

He's done Amway. He's sold cable TV. But this cyber-cig deal, says Kevin Kintzi, is the real McCoy.

Sue 'Em if You Got 'Em

Hennepin County leads the next round of tobacco litigation

Trial by Paper

Millions of tobacco-industry documents find a home in the crammed back rooms of the Depot

THE MARLBORO CHRIST

Dying for a smoke: For decades now, the American public has died for the Marlboro Man's sins. Today, he's ready to die for ours.

Puff Daddies

State ethics officials use fuzzy logic to dismiss complaints about Gov. Arne Carlson's Cigarette-Company Junket

Marlboro Man

Arne Carlson's sudden announcement of support for the proposed U.S. settlement with cigarette manufacturers raises new questions about a vacation the governor and his wife took to Australia last year with Phillip Morris execs.

Butts R Us: Tobacco, Clinton, Gore, and the Doles

Arne Carlson's sudden announcement of support for the proposed U.S. settlement with cigarette manufacturers raises new questions about a vacation the governor and his wife took to Australia last year with Phillip Morris execs.