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...

Big tobacco and the Republican party are opposing California imposing a $1 per pack tax that would be used to fund cancer research. Bog...

The Edmonton Journal reports that Alberta is teeing up a $ 10 billion claim against big tobacco, and litigation also is being teed up by...

California’s Proposition 29 is a proposal to implement a $1.00 per pack increase in the price of cigarettes (and equivalent increase on...

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,...

Tobacco smoking creates enormous amounts of disease and expense. The ACS and others estimate the annual global cost at $ 1.5 trillion –...

The Canadian tobacco trial continues, and Big Tobacco is trying emergency appeals to try to keep documents hidden under seal. The full...

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....

Tobacco industry defense is the driving force behind 25 or so lawyers exiting Shook, Hardy to join Hughes Hubbard. The Kansas City office...

Thorax is an international medical journal, and is noted here because one of its October 2011 issues included a trio of articles on...

Amazing what’s out there. This blog post by patent lawyer and molecular biologist Kevin E. Noonan describes litigation over a tobacco...

Part 1 of this line of posts provides an introduction to a valuable resource for seeing the global tobacco litigation mosaic. The...

Yesterday’s post noted the latest chapter in big tobacco’s many losses in smoking litigation in Florida regarding individual cancers and...

Big tobacco took another hit in Florida as the state supreme court refused to hear an appeal from an intermediate appellate court...

Smoking imposes a staggering human and financial toll through the cancers it causes. Less well defined and known are the human and...

Some "conservatives" decry "activist" judges who take the law into their own hands. For example, here, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah...

The tobacco wars have moved another couple of steps. A new AmLaw article by Susan Beck covers 1) a Florida appellate court affirming a $...

Update on November 1 post: Big tobacco’s winning streak came to an abrupt end. As explained below, outcomes vary for tort trials, and...

Last week brought new insights into the global tobacco wars. The insights are contained in information from four sources: 1) the US Food...

Tobacco sales continue today thanks to "big tobacco" long ago obtaining federal law preemption against most product liability claims. The...