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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tobacco Products Liability 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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