The newest trouble for the tobacco giant is centered on a word: virile.

The tobacco giant also agreed to bar its chief Albany official from lobbying the Legislature for three years.

The stock offering is part of a plan to cut the food and tobacco giant's total debt load to less than $15 billion, from $29 billion.

Liggett Group was once one of the tobacco giants with its L&M brand.

The size, scope and power of the tobacco giant to peddle influence will be drastically reduced if the transaction is completed.

With tobacco giants battling a national deluge of lawsuits and antismoking restrictions, it would seem that we are in the third stage.

The class action is the first to be certified in a Federal court with national jurisdiction, permitting the most sweeping assault yet on the tobacco giants.

Still, policy advocates fear the aggressive marketing and advertising schemes of Western tobacco giants.

We need more agreements of this kind with other tobacco giants.

Not that this would automatically hurt the tobacco giants.