Tobacco
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.
A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer
Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies.
Are Punitive Damages Enough
Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning.
Big Tobacco's Nemesis
Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter.
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.
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,…
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 awar…
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 …
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…
Light Cigarettes Smokers Sue Tobacco Industry
News article covers how the tobacco industry designed and promoted "light" cigarettes to create an safer image, but not a safer product.
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.
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.
Probative Production -- Boeken Trial
The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled.
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-ca…
Statement of Professor G. Robert Blakey
Notre Dame Law School professor outlines the case against the tobacco industry in both lay terms and legal prose.
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…
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