Kirk Hartley
Will Tobacco Kill a Billion People in the 21st Century?
Business Insider brings together 12 powerful charts on the death toll and other harms from tobacco. Some say tobacco will kill 1 billion...
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Kirk Hartley
Apr 8, 20141 min read
Will Tobacco Kill a Billion People in the 21st Century?
Business Insider brings together 12 powerful charts on the death toll and other harms from tobacco. Some say tobacco will kill 1 billion...
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Kirk Hartley
Apr 4, 20141 min read
Big Tobacco’s Engle Appeals Continue at SCOTUS
Big tobacco is continuing its effort to undo Engle through appeals to SCOTUS. Last fall, big tobacco launched yet another attack. Now,...
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 5, 20131 min read
Big Tobacco Moves More Massively into the Russian Marketplace – No Fear of Russian Lung Cance
Big tobacco continues to expand its global spreading of death and cancer, this time with Phillip Morris and Japan Tobacco making major...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 23, 20131 min read
150 Cases Involving Lorillard’s Kent Micronite Filters with Crocidolite Fibers
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...
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Kirk Hartley
Oct 2, 20132 min read
More Progress on Pinpointing Lung Cancers Caused by Smoking
Although researchers generally are not interested in litigation, their insights continue to have implications for toxic tort litigation....
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Kirk Hartley
Sep 23, 20131 min read
American Cancer Society Joins in Supporting Tobacco Class Action
Toxic tort litigation continues to evolve. The American Cancer Society is supporting deceptive marketing class actions against big...
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Kirk Hartley
Aug 6, 20131 min read
Tobacco Takes Another Hit – Punitives Awarded in Case Arising from a Person Who Started in Te
Another Florida verdict against big tobacco, with a $ 22 million award of punitive damages. The claims involved a woman who started...
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Kirk Hartley
Jul 29, 20132 min read
Ireland’s Goal – “Smoke Free” (Relatively Speaking) in 12 Years
Imagine – a smoke free country in Europe. That’s the 2025 goal of the Health Minister in Ireland, although the goal actually is not...
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Kirk Hartley
Jul 12, 20131 min read
Tobacco Loses Another Appeal After Losing at Trial
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...
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Kirk Hartley
May 10, 20131 min read
Canadian Province Tobacco Trial Marches Forward – The Defense Loses Most Every Motion
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...
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 20, 20131 min read
“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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