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Montana’s attorney general filed suit against major tobacco companies, seeking to recover millions of dollars in state medical costs and to prevent any marketing cigarettes to children. The lawsuit makes Montana the 26th state to sue the industry. . . . The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first smokeless nicotine inhaler, designed to help smokers quit. The product was developed by Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. and will be marketed as a prescription-only product by McNeil Consumer Products of Fort Washington, Pa. . . . A Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. unit agreed to buy DecisionOne Holdings Corp., the largest computer maintenance company in North America, for about $924 million in cash and assumed debt.

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