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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. (March 25, 2002)
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.
Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control

Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
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. (May 10, 1998)
Lorillard Tobacco Company Counts on Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Cancer Death Lawsuit

Coverage in the Kansas City Star about a major tobacco industry law firm. (November 10, 1996)
Probative Production -- Boeken Trial

The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled.
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. (May 19, 2002)
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.
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.
The Jesse Williams Case

Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
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.
The Smoking Gun

Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe. (January 13, 2003)

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