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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.
	Tobacco Products Liablity Project - http://tplp.org/ Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders for media and the public.
	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.
	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.
	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.

	The Shredding of BAT's defense: McCabe vs. British American Tobacco Australia - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/3/271 Policy journal analyzes tobacco industry destruction of evidence committed in litigation of an Australian smoker.
	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.
	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.
	Probative Production -- Boeken Trial - http://home.att.net/~sparklex/ppweb2.html The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled.
	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.

	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.
	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.
	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.
	Court TV - Tobacco on Trial - http://courttv.com/business/tobacco/tobaccoindex.html Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates.
	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.

	The Jesse Williams Case - http://www.stc-law.com/piwilliams.html Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
	Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson - http://courttv.com/trials/tobacco/ Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry conspiracy".
	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.
	The Smoking Gun - http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0113/cover/pisani.html Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe.
	The Case Against the Tobacco Companies - http://www.thememoryhole.org/corp/us-v-philip-morris.htm 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.

	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.
	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.
	A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer - http://slate.com/id/1005187/ Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies.
	Big Tobacco's Worst Nightmare - http://www.ahc.umn.edu/commnews/June98/junepg2.htm 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.
	Statement of Professor G. Robert Blakey - http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/te090501f-blakey.htm Notre Dame Law School professor outlines the case against the tobacco industry in both lay terms and legal prose.

	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.
	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.
	Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control - http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?sid=69 Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
	Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/litigation/200110francey.shtml 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.

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