{"id":124,"date":"2024-08-21T18:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/?p=124"},"modified":"2024-08-21T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:14:24","slug":"massachusetts-attorney-general-reaches-600-million-settlement-with-tobacco-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/2024\/08\/21\/massachusetts-attorney-general-reaches-600-million-settlement-with-tobacco-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Attorney General Reaches $600 Million Settlement with Tobacco Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 12, 2024, the Massachusetts Attorney General\u2019s Office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/news\/attorney-general-campbell-reaches-historic-600m-settlement-with-major-tobacco-manufacturers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced that it had reached a settlement for in excess of $600 million with tobacco manufacturers<\/a>. The settlement resolves several years\u2019 worth of disputes between the Attorney General\u2019s Office and tobacco manufacturers concerning annual payments arising from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naag.org\/our-work\/naag-center-for-tobacco-and-public-health\/the-master-settlement-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA)<\/a>.\u00a0 That 1998 MSA required tobacco manufacturers to make annual payments to address the public health effects from smoking and the marketing of tobacco products.\u00a0 The $600 million settlement resolves disputes in arbitration about amounts withheld from those annual payments to states. In announcing the settlement, the AGO emphasized that it is \u201cpart of the AGO\u2019s ongoing efforts to improve public health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 12, 2024, the Massachusetts Attorney General\u2019s Office, announced that it had reached a settlement for in excess of $600 million with tobacco manufacturers. The settlement resolves several years\u2019 worth of disputes between the Attorney General\u2019s Office and tobacco manufacturers concerning annual payments arising from a 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA).\u00a0 That 1998 MSA &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/2024\/08\/21\/massachusetts-attorney-general-reaches-600-million-settlement-with-tobacco-companies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Massachusetts Attorney General Reaches $600 Million Settlement with Tobacco Companies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41,43,44,42],"ppma_author":[9],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-massachusetts","tag-master-settlement-agreement","tag-public-health","tag-settlements"],"authors":[{"term_id":9,"user_id":61,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dwalworth","display_name":"Daniel R. Walworth","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2024\/06\/walworthdaniel-100x100.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/stateattorneysgeneral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}