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Tobacco
See also:
- Tobacco Products Liablity Project
- Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders for media and the public.
- Are Punitive Damages Enough - Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning.
- Big Tobacco's Worst Nightmare - Profile of Cheryl Perry, an epidemiology professor at the University of Minnesota, who become an expert in the industry's own words on promoting cigarettes to children.
- The Case Against the Tobacco Companies - Outlines decades of tobacco industry campaigns designed to mislead the public about cigarettes, resulting in extraordinary profits for the industry and devastating consequences for the public's health.
- Court TV - Tobacco on Trial - Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates.
- Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson - Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry conspiracy".
- Florida Tobacco Litigation Symposium: Fact, Law, Policy, and Significance - Transcript of panel discussion on tobacco ligitagion, focusing on public health benefits, with emphasis on Florida's suit against the tobacco industry.
- Gallop Poll for Philip Morris on Surgeon General's Warning - In public the tobacco industry says "everyone knew" the risks of smoking. But this 1973 survey secretly done for Philip Morris showed that only 3.1% of smokers were aware of the Surgeon General's health warning.
- Interview with G. Robert Blakey - In an interview, Robert Blankey, a former federal prosecuter and the author of the federal RICO statute, compares the cigarette industry to the Mafia and recommends using RICO laws to criminally prosecute the tobacco industry.
- The Jesse Williams Case - Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
- Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control - Summary and policy paper argues for litigation as a means to expose and roll back the deceit designed by the industry to influence public policy.
- Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control - Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
- Probative Production -- Boeken Trial - The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled.
- The Shredding of BAT's defense: McCabe vs. British American Tobacco Australia - Policy journal analyzes tobacco industry destruction of evidence committed in litigation of an Australian smoker.
- 19th Conference of the Tobacco Products Liability Project - Announcement of conference for plaintiffs and the public health community only, scheduled for November 22-24, 2002 in San Francisco.
- Tobacco Control Resource Center - The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
- A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer - Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies.
- Tobacco Litigation Worldwide - 130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for Health, Department for Tobacco Control. [PDF]
- Tobacco On Trial - Weblog covers the history of Department of Justice trial against the tobacco industry. Features trial updates, transcripts, original reporting, analysis, and behind the scenes interviews.
- Tobacco Scam: Litigation Risks - Outlines the legal liabilities for business owners that permit indoor smoking, and warns why tobacco-sponsored ventilation programs will not protect the business owner from those liabilities.
- Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association - Supports and represents those who fight on behalf of consumers injured or killed by tobacco. Membership is open to those with a substantial interest in fighting consumer cases.
- Big Tobacco's Nemesis - Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter. (April 17, 2003)
- The Smoking Gun - Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe. (January 13, 2003)
- Blaming Tobacco's Victims - Op-ed examines society's tendency to blame smokers, and explains why juries are less willing to do so: tobacco industry recruiting of kids, decades-long efforts to cloud the issue, and engineering of product for addiction. (July 7, 2002)
- Smoked Out - An essay by Harvard Law professor Kip Viscusi arguing that the settlement of the lawsuit against tobacco firms didn't penalize those firms, but instead penalized smokers, the so-called victims. (May 19, 2002)
- Will Litigation Become Part of Public Health Arsenal in Canada's War Against Smoking? - Discussion of documents obtained through U.S. litigation against tobacco companies, and how it affects the potential for similar litigation in Canada. From the Canadian Medical Association Journal. (May 30, 2000)
- Long-Secret Documents Now Hurting Tobacco - LA Times article explores why once-secret tobacco industry letters, memos, and reports are hurting the industry in court and opening the eyes of the public. (May 10, 1998)
- How the Tobacco Industry Lost its Attorney-Client Privilege - Legal analysis concludes the tobacco industry's fraudulent manipulation of the attorney-client privilege was intended to cover up scientific information the industry had about the product. (May 4, 1998)
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