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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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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 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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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. |
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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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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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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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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. |
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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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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. |
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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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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. |