A ruling by a federal judge that the nation's top cigarette makers violated racketeering laws and lied to the public for years about the health hazards of smoking could be a windfall for newspapers.
While the judge did not order them to shell out billions in smoking-cessation programs, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler did order the companies to publish in newspapers and on their Web sites
"corrective statements" on the adverse health effects and addictiveness of smoking and nicotine.
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