NBC Nightly News - 1995-02-21
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[0:00] hardware. The cow rubbed against barbed
[0:01] wire, brass hinges, and Oh, I got to see
[0:04] the lining.
[0:08] Meabu because a million bucks is a
[0:10] million bucks. Nice briefcase. Yeah,
[0:12] right.
[0:15] Tobacco. Florida goes after the high
[0:17] cost of smoking. The cigarette companies
[0:19] are the
[0:20] targets. In Washington, environmental
[0:23] laws are the new line in the sand for
[0:24] the GOP and the White House. And tonight
[0:27] we begin a special series, the drug
[0:29] bomb. Drugs and kids getting worse, not
[0:31] better. From NBC News. This is NBC
[0:35] Nightly News with Tom Brokoff. Good
[0:38] evening. It didn't take long once a
[0:40] federal judge ruled that tobacco
[0:42] companies could be the targets of class
[0:44] action suits for damage done by their
[0:46] products. The action began today in
[0:48] Florida. The issue here is the cost of
[0:51] dealing with health problems caused by
[0:53] smoking. And as NBC's Bob Dawson tells
[0:56] us tonight, there is no shortage of
[0:57] those prepared to make this claim. Being
[1:00] taken to the court for having In the
[1:02] latest assault on the tobacco industry,
[1:04] Florida filed a $1.4 billion lawsuit,
[1:07] saying tobacco companies should put the
[1:09] bill for Medicaid patients who get sick
[1:12] from smoking. All too often, our people
[1:15] hooked on tobacco products pay for their
[1:18] addiction with their lives and with
[1:20] their health. and the taxpayers in many
[1:23] instances picked up the bill for their
[1:25] treatment. Last April, the Florida
[1:27] legislature passed a law that makes it
[1:28] easier to sue tobacco companies for
[1:31] these Medicaid expenses. It also removes
[1:33] the company's major defense that some
[1:36] blame for health prob