WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The two largest U.S. tobacco companies have agreed to improve public access to internal industry documents, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
The settlement with Philip Morris USA and its parent company, Atria Group, and with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. also says the two companies will pay $6.25 million into a court fund to underwrite the largest online collection of tobacco documents, the department said.