Web Directory

» 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.
   http://tobacco.neu.edu/conference/index.html

» A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer
   Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies.
   http://slate.com/id/1005187/

» Are Punitive Damages Enough
   Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning.
   http://www.sptimes.com/News/082601/Columns/Are_punitive_damages_.shtml

» Big Tobacco's Nemesis
   Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter.
   http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/17/TampaBay/Big_Tobacco_s_absolut.shtml

» 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.
   http://www.ahc.umn.edu/commnews/June98/junepg2.htm

» 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.
   http://www.tobacco.org/News/020708chapman.html

» 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.
   http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/frames/254/tobatxt.html

» 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.
   http://www.tobacco.org/resources/documents/73gallup.html

» 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.
   http://www.acprivilege.com/articles/article4.html

» 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.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/blakey.html

» Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control
   Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
   http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?sid=69

» 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.
   http://no-smoking.org/may98/05-10-98-1.html

» 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.
   http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/857476.html

» The Jesse Williams Case
   Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
   http://www.stc-law.com/piwilliams.html

» 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.
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/3/271

» The Smoking Gun
   Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe.
   http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0113/cover/pisani.html

» Tobacco Control Resource Center
   The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
   http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/

» Tobacco Litigation Worldwide
   130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for Health, Department for Tobacco Control.
   http://www.shdir.no/vp/multimedia/archive/00001/IS-1004_1701a.pdf

» Tobacco On Trial
   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.
   http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/

» Tobacco Scam: Litigation Risks
   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.
   http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/fake/fake_lr.cfm

» Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association
   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.
   http://www.ttlaonline.com/

» Will Litigation Become Part of Public Health Arsenal in Canada's War Against Smoking?
   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.
   http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/162/11/1608