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Probative Production -- Boeken Trial
The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled.
http://home.att.net/~sparklex/ppweb2.html
Tobacco Litigation Worldwide
130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for Health, Department for Tobacco Control.
http://www.tobakk.no/materiell/pdf/litigat...
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.
http://www.tobacco.org/News/020708chapman....
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.
http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/te0905...
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.
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/162/11...
Court TV - Tobacco on Trial
Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates.
http://courttv.com/business/tobacco/tobacc...
A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer
Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies.
http://slate.msn.com/id/1005187/
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.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full...
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.
http://www.ttlaonline.com/
Are Punitive Damages Enough
Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/082601/Columns...
Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson
Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry conspiracy".
http://courttv.com/trials/tobacco/
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.
http://www.acprivilege.com/articles/articl...
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.
http://www.detnews.com/2002/health/0203/25...
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.
http://www.thememoryhole.org/corp/us-v-phi...
Tobacco Company Destruction of Documents
News item covers how BATco's destruction of documents in an Australian case may affect other tobacco litigation.
http://ash.org.uk/html/press/020411.html
Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control
Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?sid=69
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.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/documents...
The Tobacco Industry and Civil Liability
Policy position from the American Society of Addiction Medicine; opposes special protection in court for the tobacco industry.
http://www.asam.org/info/ama2.htm
The Smoking Gun
Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe.
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2...
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.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/liti...
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.
http://no-smoking.org/may98/05-10-98-1.htm...
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.
http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/fake/fake_...
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.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...
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.
http://tobacco.neu.edu/conference/index.ht...
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.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sh...
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.
http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/...
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.
http://www.ahc.umn.edu/commnews/June98/jun...
Big Tobacco's Nemesis
Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter.
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/17/TampaBay...
The Jesse Williams Case
Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
http://www.stc-law.com/piwilliams.html
Tobacco Control Resource Center
Information on tobacco products and manufacturer liability from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston
http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/
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