The story of Liggett Group

U.S. cigarette maker that stayed away from the December 1953 meeting, later joined the enterprise, broke ranks in 1996 and 1997, and signed the Master Settlement Agreement.

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Liggett Group. U.S. cigarette maker that stayed away from the December 1953 meeting, later joined the enterprise, broke ranks in 1996 and 1997, and signed the Master Settlement Agreement.

Mar 1997

Liggett Group settled with Settling States of the Master Settlement Agreement. Agreement with seventeen states, with a public statement that smoking causes lung cancer and that cigarettes and nicotine are addictive.

23 Nov 1998

Liggett Group settled with Settling States of the Master Settlement Agreement. No admission of liability or wrongdoing.

Liggett Group, involved in Cipollone v. Liggett Group, House hearing on tobacco, 14 April 1994 and United States v. Philip Morris USA.

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