Kirk Hartley
“A smoking gun in lung cancer epigenetics” – NCI’s New Press Release
Scientists continue to close in on fingerprints to show when, why and how cigarette smoke causes lung cancer. The latest paper takes the...
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 1, 20131 min read
Second Hand Tobacco Smoke – Examples of Proof of Exposure
Objective, quantifiable science continues to prove the widespread impacts of tobacco smoke. This new study establishes second hand smoke...
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 18, 20123 min read
Big Tobacco Loses New York Trial on Lung Cancer Claims Brought by An Estate
Big tobacco recently suffered a significant loss in a cigarette smoking trial in federal court in New York (White Plains). The suit...
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 16, 20126 min read
Secrecy Runs Amok – Tobacco Companies Obtain an Order Suppressing A List of Tobacco Lawsuits (
Secrecy in litigation: good, bad or otherwise? Court orders for secrecy sometimes raise difficult issues and one understands a sealing...
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Kirk Hartley
Nov 8, 20122 min read
Fingerprinting a History of Cigarette Smoking Through Epigenetic Changes
For asbestos litigation defendants, a recurrent fear is facing waves of lung cancer claims that we would today say are completely or...
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Kirk Hartley
Aug 15, 20121 min read
Australia’s Supreme Court Upholds Law Requiring Plain Labels for Cigarettes
Australia’s Supreme Court issued an order – but not yet a full opinion – upholding the constitutionality of a law requiring plain paper...
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Kirk Hartley
Jul 26, 20121 min read
Government Tobacco Case to Move Forward in New Brunswick
A trial judge in New Brunswick has ordered the various tobacco defendants to answer New Brunswick’s complaint by August 20. The complaint...
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Kirk Hartley
Jul 6, 20121 min read
Phillip Morris Loses Again on the Appeal from a Large Post-Engle Verdict
Tobacco.org and LAW360 brings news that big tobacco has once again lost on appeal in another large verdict in a post-Engle case. The case...
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Kirk Hartley
Jun 12, 20122 min read
Racing to the Bottom – Illinois Legislators Continue Efforts to Protect Big Tobacco
The Madison County Record has the story on Illinois’ GOP legislators leading the charge to help protect big tobacco against big bonds in...
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Kirk Hartley
Jun 11, 20121 min read
Quebec Sues Big Tobacco for $ 60 Billion
Quebec has filed its suit against big tobacco for past and future expenses – the press release is here and the complaint is here, but in...
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Kirk Hartley
Jun 4, 20121 min read
Saudi Arabian Province to Shut Down Stores that Sell Cigarettes to Kids Under 18
Big tobacco and the Republican party are opposing California imposing a $1 per pack tax that would be used to fund cancer research. Bog...
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Kirk Hartley
Jun 1, 20121 min read
Tobacco Suits Teed Up by Alberta and The Other Canadian Provinces Which Have Not Yet Sued
The Edmonton Journal reports that Alberta is teeing up a $ 10 billion claim against big tobacco, and litigation also is being teed up by...
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Kirk Hartley
May 29, 20121 min read
Big Tobacco and California Republican Party Spend Heavily to Oppose New California Tobacco Tax to Fu
California’s Proposition 29 is a proposal to implement a $1.00 per pack increase in the price of cigarettes (and equivalent increase on...
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Kirk Hartley
May 24, 20124 min read
More Evidence Demonstrating the Utility of Low Dose CT Scans to Find Lung Cancers Earlier
Low dose CT scans to detect lung cancer are an example of using new technologies to try to reduce deaths by finding cancers earlier. And,...
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Kirk Hartley
May 17, 20121 min read
Russia Raising Pressures Against Smoking
Tobacco smoking creates enormous amounts of disease and expense. The ACS and others estimate the annual global cost at $ 1.5 trillion –...
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Kirk Hartley
May 11, 20121 min read
Big Tobacco Pursuing Emergency Appeals Trying to Hide Internal Documents
The Canadian tobacco trial continues, and Big Tobacco is trying emergency appeals to try to keep documents hidden under seal. The full...
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Kirk Hartley
Apr 9, 20121 min read
Tobacco Trials – Daily Blog Coverage for Canadian Government Cost Recovery Trial Trial
The ongoing Canadian tobacco trial is being covered – in detail every day – by a blog – here. The blog is known as: Eye on the Trials....
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 8, 20112 min read
Tobacco Industry Creates Law Firm Change for Shook, Hardy and Hughes, Hubbard
Tobacco industry defense is the driving force behind 25 or so lawyers exiting Shook, Hardy to join Hughes Hubbard. The Kansas City office...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 23, 20112 min read
Smoking in Young People – Correlations Between Smoking Habits and Movies Showing Smoking 
Thorax is an international medical journal, and is noted here because one of its October 2011 issues included a trio of articles on...
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Kirk Hartley
Sep 16, 20112 min read
Tobacco Patents on a Method to Reduce Carcinogens in Cigarettes
Amazing what’s out there. This blog post by patent lawyer and molecular biologist Kevin E. Noonan describes litigation over a tobacco...
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