The Engle verdicts and tobacco litigation

Why tobacco litigation?

1 the tobacco control community cheered. The jury had calculated that only one in 28 000 Californians who have suffered from tobacco caused disease ever sues, so to make Philip Morris confront the real cost of its misbehaviour, they multiplied a typical $1 million compensatory damage award (for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering) by 28 000. Right on! Even though the trial judge s...

The role of litigation in tobacco control.

There is now 50-years of experience in the United States litigating against the tobacco industry. As the base of evidence regarding health effects has evolved and new legal strategies have emerged, successive waves of litigation have occurred. The many failures by the first and second waves were followed by some notable successes in the third. Litigation by flight attendants and the states led ...

The "tobacco wars"--global litigation strategies.

Litigation in Argentina: challenging the tobacco industry.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the processes and outcomes of tobacco litigation in Argentina and to analyse the strategies of the tobacco industry to oppose litigation using tobacco industry documents. METHODS A systematic search of tobacco industry documents on the internet dating from 1978 to 2002. Law library searches using Argentinean official and unofficial reports systems were combined with comp...

Tobacco industry litigation strategies to oppose tobacco control media campaigns.

OBJECTIVE To document the tobacco industry's litigation strategy to impede tobacco control media campaigns. METHODS Data were collected from news and reports, tobacco industry documents, and interviews with health advocates and media campaign staff. RESULTS RJ Reynolds and Lorillard attempted to halt California's Media Campaign alleging that the campaign polluted jury pools and violated Fir...