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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.








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Tobacco Products Liability Project* - Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders for media and the public.

  • The Case Against the Tobacco Companies - Outlines decades of tobacco industry campaigns designed to tobacco mislead the product liability public about cigarettes, resulting in extraordinary tobacco profits for the industry product liability and devastating consequences for tobacco the public's health.
  • 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.
  • Florida Tobacco Litigation Symposium: Fact, Law, Policy, and Significance - Transcript of panel discussion on tobacco ligitagion, focusing on public legal information health benefits, with emphasis on Florida\\'s suit against the tobacco legal information industry.
  • Blaming Tobacco's Victims - Op-ed examines society\\'s tendency to blame smokers, and tobacco explains why juries are less willing to do tobacco so: tobacco industry recruiting of kids, decades-long efforts tobacco to cloud the issue, and engineering of product tobacco for addiction.
  • Gallop Poll for Philip Morris on Surgeon General's Warning - In public the tobacco industry says "everyone knew" the risks product liability of smoking. But this 1973 survey secretly done for product liability Philip Morris showed that only 3.1% of smokers were aware product liability of the Surgeon General's health warning.
  • The Jesse Williams Case - Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
  • 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 Control Resource Center - The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern legal information University School of Law in Boston.
  • Big Tobacco's Worst Nightmare - Profile of Cheryl Perry, an epidemiology professor at the University tobacco of Minnesota, who become an expert in the industry\\'s own tobacco words on promoting cigarettes to children.
  • 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.
  • Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control - Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
  • The Shredding of BAT's defense: McCabe vs. British American Tobacco Australia - Policy journal analyzes tobacco industry destruction of evidence committed in tobacco litigation of an Australian smoker.
  • Tobacco On Trial - Weblog covers the history of Department of Justice legal information trial against the tobacco industry. Features trial updates, legal information transcripts, original reporting, analysis, and behind the scenes legal information interviews.
  • The Smoking Gun - Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe.
  • Will Litigation Become Part of Public Health Arsenal in Canada's War Against Smoking? - Discussion of documents obtained through U.S. litigation against tobacco tobacco companies, tobacco and how it affects the potential tobacco for similar litigation in tobacco Canada. From the Canadian tobacco Medical Association Journal.
  • 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.
  • Interview with G. Robert Blakey - In an interview, Robert Blankey, a former federal prosecuter and product liability the author of the federal RICO statute, compares the cigarette product liability industry to the Mafia and recommends using RICO laws to product liability criminally prosecute the tobacco industry.
  • How the Tobacco Industry Lost its Attorney-Client Privilege - Legal analysis concludes the tobacco industry\\'s fraudulent manipulation product liability of product liability the attorney-client privilege was intended to cover product liability up scientific product liability information the industry had about the product liability product.
  • A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer - Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding legal information against tobacco companies.
  • Are Punitive Damages Enough - Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the legal information judge\'s decision and reasoning.
  • Big Tobacco's Nemesis - Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without product liability earning a penny, but he\'s no quitter.
  • Tobacco Litigation Worldwide - 130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for product liability Health, product liability Department for Tobacco Control.[PDF]
  • Probative Production -- Boeken Trial - The trial team that won the Boeken trial legal information is profiled.
  • Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association - Supports and represents those who fight on behalf of consumers tobacco injured or killed by tobacco. Membership is open to those tobacco with a substantial interest in fighting consumer cases.


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