Tobacco (Product Liability)

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Light Cigarettes Smokers Sue Tobacco Industry 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. (Tobacco) http://www.detnews.com/2002/health/0203/25/-449181.htm Gallop Poll for Philip Morris on Surgeon General's Warning 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. (Tobacco) http://www.tobacco.org/resources/documents/73gallup.html Will Litigation Become Part of Public Health Arsenal in Canada's War Against Smoking? 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. (Tobacco) http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/162/11/1608 Smoked Out 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. (Tobacco) http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/857476.html The Smoking Gun The Smoking Gun: Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe. (Tobacco) http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0113/cover/pisani.html Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association 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. (Tobacco) http://www.ttlaonline.com/ How the Tobacco Industry Lost its Attorney-Client Privilege 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. (Tobacco) http://www.acprivilege.com/articles/article4.html Blaming Tobacco's Victims 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. (Tobacco) http://www.tobacco.org/News/020708chapman.html Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control: Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format. (Tobacco) http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?sid=69 Tobacco Company Destruction of Documents Tobacco Company Destruction of Documents: News item covers how BATco's destruction of documents in an Australian case may affect other tobacco litigation. (Tobacco) http://ash.org.uk/html/press/020411.html Tobacco Scam: Litigation Risks 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) http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/fake/fake_lr.cfm The Tobacco Industry and Civil Liability The Tobacco Industry and Civil Liability: Policy position from the American Society of Addiction Medicine; opposes special protection in court for the tobacco industry. (Tobacco) http://www.asam.org/info/ama2.htm The Jesse Williams Case The Jesse Williams Case: Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris. (Tobacco) http://www.stc-law.com/piwilliams.html Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson: Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry conspiracy". (Tobacco) http://courttv.com/trials/tobacco/ Tobacco Products Liablity Project Tobacco Products Liablity Project: Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders for media and the public. (Tobacco) http://tplp.org/ Tobacco Litigation Worldwide Tobacco Litigation Worldwide: 130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for Health, Department for Tobacco Control. (Tobacco) http://www.tobakk.no/materiell/pdf/litigation.pdf Statement of Professor G. Robert Blakey 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. (Tobacco) http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/te090501f-blakey.htm A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer: Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies. (Tobacco) http://slate.msn.com/id/1005187/ Lorillard Tobacco Company Counts on Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Cancer Death Lawsuit Lorillard Tobacco Company Counts on Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Cancer Death Lawsuit: Coverage in the Kansas City Star about a major tobacco industry law firm. (Tobacco) http://kcstar.com/standing/stories/shook1.htm The Case Against the Tobacco Companies 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. (Tobacco) http://www.thememoryhole.org/corp/us-v-philip-morris.htm 19th Conference of the Tobacco Products Liability Project 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) http://tobacco.neu.edu/conference/index.html Big Tobacco's Nemesis Big Tobacco's Nemesis: Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter. (Tobacco) http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/17/TampaBay/Big_Tobacco_s_absolut.shtml Long-Secret Documents Now Hurting Tobacco 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. (Tobacco) http://no-smoking.org/may98/05-10-98-1.html The Shredding of BAT's defense: McCabe vs. British American Tobacco Australia 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. (Tobacco) http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/3/271 Tobacco On Trial Tobacco On Trial: Blog covers the U.S. Department of Justice case against the tobacco industry. (Tobacco) http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/ Tobacco Control Resource Center Tobacco Control Resource Center: The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. (Tobacco) http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/ Probative Production -- Boeken Trial Probative Production -- Boeken Trial: The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled. (Tobacco) http://home.att.net/~sparklex/ppweb2.html Florida Tobacco Litigation Symposium: Fact, Law, Policy, and Significance 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. (Tobacco) http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/frames/254/tobatxt.html Are Punitive Damages Enough Are Punitive Damages Enough: Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning. (Tobacco) http://www.sptimes.com/News/082601/Columns/Are_punitive_damages_.shtml Big Tobacco's Worst Nightmare 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. (Tobacco) http://www.ahc.umn.edu/commnews/June98/junepg2.htm Interview with G. Robert Blakey 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. (Tobacco) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/blakey.html Court TV - Tobacco on Trial Court TV - Tobacco on Trial: Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates. (Tobacco) http://courttv.com/business/tobacco/tobaccoindex.html