Business Insider brings together 12 powerful charts on the death toll and other harms from tobacco. Some say tobacco will kill 1 billion...

Business Insider brings together 12 powerful charts on the death toll and other harms from tobacco. Some say tobacco will kill 1 billion...

Big tobacco is continuing its effort to undo Engle through appeals to SCOTUS. Last fall, big tobacco launched yet another attack. Now,...

Big tobacco continues to expand its global spreading of death and cancer, this time with Phillip Morris and Japan Tobacco making major...

A new Mother Jones article by Myron Levin provides a cogent summary of the Kent filter story, with links to some interesting old ads run...

Although researchers generally are not interested in litigation, their insights continue to have implications for toxic tort litigation....

Toxic tort litigation continues to evolve. The American Cancer Society is supporting deceptive marketing class actions against big...

Another Florida verdict against big tobacco, with a $ 22 million award of punitive damages. The claims involved a woman who started...

Imagine – a smoke free country in Europe. That’s the 2025 goal of the Health Minister in Ireland, although the goal actually is not...

It’s always good to see big tobacco lose a trial verdict or an appeal. The latest loss is described here – in a California appellate...

A new post on Eye on the Trials provides a concise summary of the tobacco companies losing a series of defense motions launched at the...

Scientists continue to close in on fingerprints to show when, why and how cigarette smoke causes lung cancer. The latest paper takes the...

Objective, quantifiable science continues to prove the widespread impacts of tobacco smoke. This new study establishes second hand smoke...

Big tobacco recently suffered a significant loss in a cigarette smoking trial in federal court in New York (White Plains). The suit...

Secrecy in litigation: good, bad or otherwise? Court orders for secrecy sometimes raise difficult issues and one understands a sealing...

For asbestos litigation defendants, a recurrent fear is facing waves of lung cancer claims that we would today say are completely or...

Australia’s Supreme Court issued an order – but not yet a full opinion – upholding the constitutionality of a law requiring plain paper...

A trial judge in New Brunswick has ordered the various tobacco defendants to answer New Brunswick’s complaint by August 20. The complaint...

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...

The Madison County Record has the story on Illinois’ GOP legislators leading the charge to help protect big tobacco against big bonds in...