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James Wood, Saskatchewan News Network
Regina Leader-Post, November 23, 2006
The Saskatchewan government will soon be able to sue tobacco companies to recover the health-care costs from smoking although just how quickly that will happen is up in the air.
Graham Addley, minister of Healthy Living Services, said there's a great deal of work that needs to be done before a lawsuit is actually launched and his preference is for Saskatchewan to act in conjunction with other provinces.
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