Tobacco Product Liability Legal Information

Tobacco Product Liability Legal Information

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- Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders for media and the public.

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
- 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.
- Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
- 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.
- Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies.
- 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.
- Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning.
- Notre Dame Law School professor outlines the case against the tobacco industry in both lay terms and legal prose.
- Transcript of panel discussion on tobacco ligitagion, focusing on public health benefits, with emphasis on Florida's suit against the tobacco industry.
- The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled.
- News article covers how the tobacco industry designed and promoted "light" cigarettes to create an safer image, but not a safer product.
- Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe.
- Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry conspiracy".
- Announcement of conference for plaintiffs and the public health community only, scheduled for November 22-24, 2002 in San Francisco.
- Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates.
- Policy journal analyzes tobacco industry destruction of evidence committed in litigation of an Australian smoker.
- Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter.
- 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.
- News item covers how BATco's destruction of documents in an Australian case may affect other tobacco litigation.
- 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.
- 130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for Health, Department for Tobacco Control.
- Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
- 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.
- Coverage in the Kansas City Star about a major tobacco industry law firm.
- Policy position from the American Society of Addiction Medicine; opposes special protection in court for the tobacco industry.
- 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.

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