Friday, May 11, 2012
News from PHAI: Public Health Advocacy Institute
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An internal memo showing that Imperial Tobacco has known cigarettes to be deadly and addictive since the 1980s has been entered into evidence in Quebec’s class-action lawsuit, despite objections from the company’s lawyers.
www.medicalobserver.com.au
THE federal government is considering suing the tobacco industry for smoking-related health costs, in what would be an audacious counterattack to big tobacco’s court challenge of plain packaging laws.
www.chicagotribune.com
The problem facing cigarette manufacturers decades ago involved tragic deaths and bad publicity, but it had nothing to do with cancer . It had to do with house fires.
www.dailybreeze.com
SACRAMENTO - In what is quickly turning into another high- stakes policy battle to be decided by California voters, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds are forking over tens of millions of dollars to defeat a new tobacco tax on the June ballot.- OLDER POSTS
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Knesset will discuss proposals to make using tobacco products illegal at performances, bus and train stations, other locations.
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A growing number of the fires in homes that are caused by smoking are beginning on the outside of the buildings, where people have been exiled to light up because of changing attitudes on their habits, state fire officials said. In 2010, half of all home fires caused by smoking in Massachusetts star...
www.montrealgazette.com
The former president of Imperial Tobacco Limited admitted in a confidential internal document that it is an unrefuted and accepted fact that smoking is a serious health issue - but a few months later told a federal legislative committee that there is not proof that tobacco causes disease.
www.therecord.com
— Renters, have you longed to live in a nice, modern apartment building free of stinky, poisonous second-hand smoke?
www.bloomberg.com
Cigarette makers, including Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA unit, drew skeptical questions from a federal appeals court for their contention they shouldn’t be bound any longer by penalties imposed in a 13-year-old case.
www.law360.com
Attorneys sparred before a Florida state jury Tuesday over whether decades of cigarette smoking caused a man's illness and death, in a so-called Engle progeny case his widow brought against tobacco companies including R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA Inc.
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John Raese, running for U.S. Senate as a Republican in West Virginia, equated a county smoking ban with Hitler forcing Jews to wear the Star of David at a recent Republican event. Speaking in Hurricane, W.Va., last Thursday at the Putnam County Lincoln Day Dinner, Raese turned to Monongalia County's...
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Pay packages for chief executives at the top three U.S. tobacco companies last year exceeded the amount of money being spent on tobacco prevention programs in all but three states.
elkgrove.patch.com
City council to consider the idea at its Wednesday meeting.
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A state appeals court in Florida vacated Monday a $79.2 million personal injury verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. — the largest award against Reynolds in the "Engle" progeny cases.
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Ed Sweda, senior attorney for the Tobacco Liability Project in Boston, visits Florida, where court decisions have concentrated thousands of smoker lawsuits against cigarettemakers. He says keeping the pressure on the tobacco industry is paramount.
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A Jackson County jury awarded $20 million in punitive damages Wednesday to local lung cancer victim Emmon Smith, who began his lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company about four years ago. It is the largest award in the history of litigation in Jackson County, according to case attorney J....
www.theglobeandmail.com
Roger Ackman, a top executive for Imperial Tobacco Ltd., said he destroyed dozens of documents that outlined the health risks associated with smoking
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A Jackson County jury on Tuesday awarded a local man $10 million in his lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company, deliberating six hours before returning their verdict in the roughly three-week trial.
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The First Amendment is increasingly being used to clear the way for marketing junk food to children.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said today it has chosen not to hear appeals of four cases in which R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. was ordered to pay millions to the families of four who died of respiratory illnesses, who began smoking when the packages had no health warnings on them.
www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court said on Monday it will not hear an appeal by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co in a Florida case in which it was ordered to pay $28.3 million to a woman whose husband died
New evidence of harmfulness of second-hand smoke: Cancer causing agent present in gaseous phase of cwww.sciencedaily.com
Scientists have shown that a key protein involved in cell function and regulation is stopped by a substance present in cigarette smoke. The authors found a cancer-causing agent called reactive oxygen species present in the gaseous phase of cigarette smoke that has the ability to inhibit normal cell ...
