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Florida Class Action

Buzz Conover of Florida Public Radio reports that the tobacco industry is trying to repeal law under which Florida is trying recover Medicaid costs paid out by state for smoking related illnesses. Tobacco industry has mounted expensive media campaign urging repeal, while Florida Governor Lawton Chiles is countering with his own, more modest, media campaign.

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