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Smoked Out - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/857476.html
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. |
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Tobacco On Trial - http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/
Weblog covers the history of Department of Justice trial against the tobacco industry. Features trial updates, transcripts, original reporting, analysis, and behind the scenes interviews. |
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Tobacco Control Resource Center - http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/
The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. |
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Tobacco Products Liability Project - http://tplp.org/
Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders for media and the public. |
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Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association - http://www.ttlaonline.com/
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. |
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19th Conference of the Tobacco Products Liability Project - http://tobacco.neu.edu/conference/index.html
Announcement of conference for plaintiffs and the public health community only, scheduled for November 22-24, 2002 in San Francisco. |
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Will Litigation Become Part of Public Health Arsenal in Canada's War Against Smoking? - http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/162/11/1608
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. |
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Tobacco Scam: Litigation Risks - http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/fake/fake_lr.cfm
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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Gallop Poll for Philip Morris on Surgeon General's Warning - http://www.tobacco.org/resources/documents/73gallup.html
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. |
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Are Punitive Damages Enough - http://www.sptimes.com/News/082601/Columns/Are_punitive_damages_.shtml
Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning. |
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Interview with G. Robert Blakey - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/blakey.html
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. |
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Florida Tobacco Litigation Symposium: Fact, Law, Policy, and Significance - http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/frames/254/tobatxt.html
Transcript of panel discussion on tobacco ligitagion, focusing on public health benefits, with emphasis on Florida's suit against the tobacco industry. |
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Long-Secret Documents Now Hurting Tobacco - http://no-smoking.org/may98/05-10-98-1.html
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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Big Tobacco's Nemesis - http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/17/TampaBay/Big_Tobacco_s_absolut.shtml
Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter. |
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Probative Production -- Boeken Trial - http://home.att.net/~sparklex/ppweb2.html
The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled. |
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The Smoking Gun - http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0113/cover/pisani.html
Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe. |
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How the Tobacco Industry Lost its Attorney-Client Privilege - http://www.acprivilege.com/articles/article4.html
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. |
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Blaming Tobacco's Victims - http://www.tobacco.org/News/020708chapman.html
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. |
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A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer - http://slate.com/id/1005187/
Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies. |
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Tobacco Litigation Worldwide - http://www.shdir.no/vp/multimedia/archive/00001/IS-1004_1701a.pdf
130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for Health, Department for Tobacco Control. |