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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
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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
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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.
http://www.thememoryhole.org/corp/us-v-philip-morris.htm
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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
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Tobacco Litigation Worldwide
130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for Health, Department for Tobacco Control.
http://www.tobakk.no/materiell/pdf/litigation.pdf
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Britsh Columbia's Legal Action Against Tobacco Companies
Concise summary of the case against the tobacco industry in Canada.
http://www.healthplanning.gov.bc.ca/tobacco/litigation/writ.html
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A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer
Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies.
http://slate.msn.com/id/1005187/
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The Smoking Gun
Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe.
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0113/cover/pisani.html
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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
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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
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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.
http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/te090501f-blakey.htm
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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
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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.
http://www.detnews.com/2002/health/0203/25/-449181.htm
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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
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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
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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
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Probative Production -- Boeken Trial
The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled.
http://home.att.net/~sparklex/ppweb2.html
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The Jesse Williams Case
Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
http://www.stc-law.com/piwilliams.html
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WCCO Channel 4000 News: Tobacco on Trial
Extensive history of the groundbreaking Minnesota trial. Provides links into the record and
testimony; documents key evidence and events in the trial.
http://www.channel4000.com/news/tobacco5.html
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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
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Tobacco Products Liablity Project
Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders
for media and the public.
http://tplp.org/
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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
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Court TV - Tobacco on Trial
Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates.
http://courttv.com/business/tobacco/tobaccoindex.html
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Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson
Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry
conspiracy".
http://courttv.com/trials/tobacco/
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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
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The Tobacco Industry and Civil Liability
Policy position from the American Society of Addiction Medicine; opposes special protection in
court for the tobacco industry.
http://www.asam.org/info/ama2.htm
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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/
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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
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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.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/litigation/200110francey.shtml
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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
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Tobacco Company Destruction of Documents
News item covers how BATco's destruction of documents in an Australian case may affect other
tobacco litigation.
http://ash.org.uk/html/press/020411.html
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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.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-162/issue-11/1608.htm
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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/
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