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Tobacco Control Resource Center
The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
www.tobacco.neu.edu
Tobacco Company Destruction of Documents
News item covers how BATco's destruction of documents in an Australian case may affect other tobacco litigation.
ash.org.uk
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
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.
www.globalink.org
Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control
Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
tobacco.who.int
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
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
Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson
Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry conspiracy".
courttv.com
Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates.
courttv.com
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
Tobacco Products Liablity Project
Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders for media and the public.tplp.org
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.
tobacco.neu.edu
Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
www.stc-law.com
Probative Production -- Boeken Trial
The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled.
home.att.net
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.
tc.bmjjournals.com