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Free informational sites about product liability litigation against the tobacco industry.

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• A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer

  http://slate.com/id/1005187/
  Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies.

• Are Punitive Damages Enough

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

• Big Tobacco's Nemesis

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

• Big Tobacco's Worst Nightmare

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

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

• Gallop Poll for Philip Morris on Surgeon General's Warning

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

• Interview with G. Robert Blakey

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

• Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control

  http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?sid=69
  Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.

• Smoked Out

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

• The Jesse Williams Case

  http://www.stc-law.com/piwilliams.html
  Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.

• The Shredding of BAT's defense: McCabe vs. British American Tobacco Australia

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/3/271.full
  Policy journal analyzes tobacco industry destruction of evidence committed in litigation of an Australian smoker.

• Tobacco On Trial

  http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/
  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.

• Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association

  http://www.ttlaonline.com/
  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.

• Will Litigation Become Part of Public Health Arsenal in Canada's War Against Smoking?

  http://www.cmaj.ca/content/162/11/1608.full
  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.

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