| 3. | 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.
no-smoking.org |
| 6. | 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.
www.ttlaonline.com |
| 8. | 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.
www.tobacco.org |
| 9. | 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.
www.press.uchicago.edu |
| 15. | 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.
www.ahc.umn.edu |
| 16. | 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.
www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu |
| 20. | The Smoking Gun | | | Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe.
www.time.com |
| 22. | Big Tobacco's Nemesis | | | Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter.
www.sptimes.com |
| 23. | 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.
www.thememoryhole.org |
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