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Nevada reaches settlement with cigarette maker
September 22, 1997
Web posted at: 10:40 p.m. EDT (2240 GMT)MIAMI (CNN) -- The Brooke Group Ltd. and its Liggett Group tobacco subsidiary have reached an agreement with Nevada to settle the state's lawsuit to recover Medicaid costs for smoking-related illnesses, the company said.
The Nevada attorney general made the same announcement when the deal was made last week, according to a spokeswoman for the state's attorney general.
Nevada is the 27th state with which Liggett, maker of Salem and Lark cigarettes, has cut its own separate peace, according to a statement issued by the company.
According to the statement, Nevada will receive "substantially the same terms that 26 other states received in the previously announced settlement agreements," said Brooke Neilsen, a spokeswoman for Nevada's attorney general.
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