Posts tagged Tobacco

• Tobacco Makers Sue U.S. over Free Speech

  C. Todd Alley | September 29, 2009 8:37 AM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL Category: Toxic Substances
  

  A group of tobacco manufacturers, including RJ Reynolds, Commonwealth Brands, Inc., National Tobacco Co., and Lorillard, sued the U.S. Government in August claiming the new federal law passed in...

• Tobacco Control Act and What it Means for Tobacco Users

  Jim Clark | August 31, 2009 10:34 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act passed easily in both the House and Senate and was signed into law on June 22 of this year. The bill creates greater restrictions on the sale...

• 2007 - Not a Good Year for Tobacco Defendants (Part 1)

  Brenda Fulmer | October 15, 2007 7:54 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  After years of scorched earth litigation tactics and many successes, the tide appears to be turning. The tobacco industry is no longer dominating the court system. Those who have suffered the ravages of smoking are being heard - and not just in Florida where the Florida Supreme Court rendered a stunning defeat to tobacco defendants in Engle that will be felt for years to come as former class...

• Supreme Court Rejects Tobacco Industry Appeal

  Chrissie Cole | October 07, 2007 11:27 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The tobacco industry appealed a ruling from last year by the Florida Supreme court that jury findings, including deception and negligence by the tobacco companies, could now be used in individual lawsuits by former class action members.In the other issue appealed to the nation's highest court, the industry said the generalized jury findings rested on evidence, arguments and theories of liability...

• NIH to Fund New Study Regarding Exposure to Cigarette Smoke

  Brenda Fulmer | October 05, 2007 9:11 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a new study focusing on the chemical changes that occur when the body is exposed to cigarette smoke.Previous research has shown that chemical changes in the body can occur after exposure to cigarette smoke and that smoking and exposure to cigarette smoke is the...

• Smokers at Increased Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

  Brenda Fulmer | September 26, 2007 10:56 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A study published in the September 4th issue of Neurology indicates that smokers are 50% more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease or dementia than non-smokers or those who used to smoke. The Rotterdam Study, a large population-based, cohort study from the Netherlands which was designed to investigate the incidence and causes of cardiovascular, neurologic, endocrine, and ophthalmologic...

• Lung cancer patients may benefit from new tumor staging process

  Brenda Fulmer | September 25, 2007 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  According to the American Cancer Society, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths around the world, claiming 1.3 million lives each year. Statistics show that nearly 60% of people die within one year of diagnosis. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp A new system that classifies many tumors as more treatable than in year's past will provide thousands of lung cancer patients...

• Tobacco Manufacturer Moving Overseas to Avoid Regulation

  Brenda Fulmer | September 10, 2007 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  On August 30, 2007, Altria Group announced that it was spinning off Philip Morris International and will be moving that division to Lausanne, Switzerland. Philip Morris USA will remain a division of Altria. Big Tobacco is facing a backlash in the United States from consumers and regulators who are fed up with renegade marketing and sales tactics to expand its market as the cigarette...

• Judge Gives Preliminary Approval for $65 Million Snuff Settlement

  Chrissie Cole | September 04, 2007 9:08 PM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  A Milwaukee County Judge has given preliminary approval for a class action tobacco lawsuit filed in 2002, that has reached a $65 million dollar settlement. The final hearing is set for December.The settlement terms will allow Wisconsin snuff users to each receive more than $800 in coupons to buy smokeless tobacco at a steep discount over the span of twenty years.The lawsuit claimed Wisconsin...

• Dismissal of Tobacco Lawsuit Upheld in Appeals Court

  Chrissie Cole | August 27, 2007 2:25 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Boston, upheld the dismissal of a tobacco lawsuit filed by a group trying to strong arm tobacco companies to repay $60 billion spent by Medicare to treat smoking-related illnesses.The group believes the tobacco companies should be held accountable for expenditures to treat illnesses that arise from smoking.The original lawsuit was dismissed in August...