 | 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. |
 | A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer
Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies. |
 | Are Punitive Damages Enough
Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning. |
 | Big Tobacco's Nemesis
Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter. (April 17, 2003) |
 | 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. |
 | 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. (July 7, 2002) |
 | Court TV - Tobacco on Trial
Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates. |
 | Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson
Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry conspiracy". |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. (May 4, 1998) |
 | 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. |
