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Violation Tracker Summary for Primary Offense Type

Offense Type: 
tobacco litigation
Penalty Total since 2000: 
$453,718,415
Number of Penalty Records: 
53
Note: 
The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.

Top 10 Parent CompaniesTotal Penalty $Number of Records
British American Tobacco$310,335,00013
Altria$6,421,0002
Walmart$446,5002
Seven & I Holdings$375,0001
Walgreens Boots Alliance$366,0002
CVS Health$340,0002
Kroger$325,0001
Rite Aid$250,0001
Albertsons Companies$245,0001
Couche-Tard$225,0001


Individual Penalty Records:

Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case. Click on the parent name to reach the summary page for that parent company.
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Company Parent Parent Major Industry Year Agencysort icon Penalty Amount
Cyco.net   2004 WA-AG $10,000
Smoking Everywhere, Inc.   2010 OR-AG $95,000
www.dirtcheapcig.com, Inc.   2003 OR-AG $15,000
Wal-Mart Stores Walmart retailing 2003 NY-AG $437,500
7-Eleven, Inc. Seven & I Holdings retailing 2005 MULTI-AG $375,000
Brown & Williamson Tobacco British American Tobacco tobacco 2003 MULTI-AG $150,000,000
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. British American Tobacco tobacco 2004 MULTI-AG $1,460,000
Circle K Stores, Inc. Couche-Tard retailing 2011 MULTI-AG $225,000
ConocoPhillips Phillips 66 oil and gas 2005 MULTI-AG $125,000
CVS Pharmacy CVS Health retailing 2006 MULTI-AG $250,000
ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil oil and gas 2002 MULTI-AG $100,000
First Regional Bank   2008 MULTI-AG $60,000
House of Prince A/S   2006 MULTI-AG $55,400,000
Kroger Company Kroger retailing 2007 MULTI-AG $325,000
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company British American Tobacco tobacco 2001 MULTI-AG $175,000
Rite Aid Corporation Rite Aid retailing 2004 MULTI-AG $250,000
Shell Oil Products US Royal Dutch Shell oil and gas 2008 MULTI-AG $100,000
Valero Retail Holdings, Inc. Valero Energy oil and gas 2010 MULTI-AG $100,000
Walgreens Walgreens Boots Alliance retailing 2002 MULTI-AG $320,000
Choice Tobacco   2002 MT-AG $10,715
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. British American Tobacco tobacco 2011 MS-AG $8,100,000
Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. British American Tobacco tobacco 2015 MS-AG $7,500,000
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. British American Tobacco tobacco 2015 MS-AG $7,500,000
Walgreens Walgreens Boots Alliance retailing 2001 MO-AG $46,000
CigTec Tobacco, LLC   2005 MD-AG $520,657
GTC Industries, Ltd.   2005 MD-AG $2,706,255
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company British American Tobacco tobacco 2010 MD-AG $150,000
Cumberland Farms, Inc. Cumberland Farms retailing 2007 MA-AG $35,000
CVS CVS Health retailing 2003 MA-AG $90,000
Sterling Tobacco International, Inc.   2002 MA-AG $348,000
Walmart Walmart retailing 2003 MA-AG $9,000
Swedish Match   2001 LA-AG $10,000
Bulgartabac Holding Group   2002 KY-AG $466,877
GTC Industries   2002 KY-AG $15,277,480
ITW Manufacturing   2002 KY-AG $25,140
Sekap SA   2002 KY-AG $2,509,584
Sun Tobacco   2002 KY-AG $245,000
www.dirtcheapcig.com   2004 IA-AG $20,948
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company British American Tobacco tobacco 2020 FL-AG $92,000,000
Philip Morris USA Altria tobacco 2011 DOJ_CIVIL $6,250,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco British American Tobacco tobacco 2011 DOJ_CIVIL $6,250,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. British American Tobacco tobacco 2010 CT-AG $150,000
Sun Tobacco, Inc.   2003 CO-AG $315,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. British American Tobacco tobacco 2004 CA-AG $17,250,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company British American Tobacco tobacco 2006 CA-AG $5,000,000
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company British American Tobacco tobacco 2002 CA-AG $14,800,000
Safeway, Inc. Albertsons Companies retailing 2004 CA-AG $245,000
Smoking Everywhere   2010 CA-AG $170,000
Sottera   2010 CA-AG $85,000
U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company Altria tobacco 2002 CA-AG $171,000
United States Tobacco Company   2000 CA-AG $150,000
Grand River Enterprises   2014 AR-AG $29,489,259
Tobacco Companies in Master Settlement Agreement   2018 AK-AG $26,000,000
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(*): Some penalties are partial or complete duplicates of other penalty records, either because a DOJ settlement duplicates an agency record or because EPA listed the full penalty for a company for each of the company's relevant facilities. Penalty amounts marked with an asterisk have been identified by Good Jobs First as duplicating other penalty amounts.