Litigation

JTI-Macdonald Corp.

Deloitte Introduction and Overview Take notice that on March 8, 2019, JTI-Macdonald Corp. (the “Applicant” or “JTIM”) sought and obtained protection pursuant to the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (the “CCAA”) before the Ontario Superior Court [...]

Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited

FTI Consulting On March 12, 2019 Imperial Tobacco Canada Limited and Imperial Tobacco Company Limited (together, the “Applicants”) sought and obtained an order (as amended from time to time, the (“Initial Order”)) under the Companies’ [...]

Montana files lawsuit against big tobacco over payments from 1998 settlement

April 13, 2020 Attorney General Tim Fox announced Monday his office filed suit in Lewis and Clark County 1st District Court against big tobacco for $43 million owed to Montana under the 1998 Master Settlement [...]

Juul Labs Sought to Court AGs as Teen Vaping Surged

March 9, 2020 Juul’s political action committee made thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to individual state attorneys general, according to records It was a blunt warning about the dangers of youth vaping: Georgia Attorney [...]

Markers of the Denormalisation of Smoking and the Tobacco Industry (2008)

Authors: Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman                                      Abstract In nations with histories of declining smoking prevalence and comprehensive [...]

Public Consultation on Proposed Tobacco-Control Measures in Singapore

Read more: Ministry of Health Singapore  [...]

Malawi urged to turn over new leaf amid tobacco lawsuit

February 12, 2020 Patchy rainfall in Malawi’s tobacco fields signals a difficult harvest season ahead for the farmers gathering the country’s “green gold”, but even greater storms could be about to break over an industry [...]

Some Academics Quietly Take Side Jobs Helping Tobacco Companies in Court

December 11, 2019 In 1998, major tobacco companies reached a historic legal settlement with states that had sued them over the health care costs of smoking-related illnesses. But individual smokers have continued to sue, and [...]

Impact of Implementation of the WHO FCTC on the Tobacco Industry’s Behaviour (2019)

Author: Stella Bialous                                     The tobacco industry has a decades-long history of opposing any measure that attempts to regulate [...]

Brazil Sues Cigarette Manufacturers for Public Health Costs (2019)

Author: Lise Alves                                   Brazil’s Attorney General’s Office (AGU) wants some of the country’s largest cigarette manufacturers to repay [...]

Impact of the WHO FCTC on Tobacco Control: Perspectives from Stakeholders in 12 Countries (2019)

Author: Lorraine Craig et al.                                                Abstract Background: The WHO Framework Convention on [...]

Jury denies family monetary award in tobacco lawsuit

January 26, 2019 The family of Robert McCain Sr. gathered at a Polk County courtroom earlier this month hoping to hold cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds accountable for the 2007 death of their patriarch, who had [...]

Association Between Initial Use of E-cigarettes and Subsequent Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents and Young Adults (2017)

Authors: Samir Soneji et al.             Abstract Importance: The public health implications of e-cigarettes depend, in part, on whether e-cigarette use affects the risk of cigarette smoking. Objective:  To perform a systematic review [...]

Holding Tobacco Companies Accountable for Deceptive Ads (2017)

Author: Roy S. Herbst Tobacco companies are finally telling the truth about their deadly products, but only because they’ve been forced to do so. The relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer was first brought [...]

The Scope of Preemption under the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (2016)

Author: Sam Halabi  I. Introduction Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act overshadow it, the first major law signed by President Barack Obama in [...]

The Globalisation Strategies of Five Asian Tobacco Companies: A Comparative Analysis and Implications for Global Health Governance (2016)

Authors: Kelley Lee and Jappe Eckhardt Abstract The global tobacco industry, from the 1960s to mid 1990s, saw consolidation and eventual domination by a small number of transnational tobacco companies (TTC). This paper draws together [...]

$15 Billion Awarded to Quebec Smokers in Landmark Class-action Lawsuit (2015)

Author: Sidhartha Banerjee In a ruling described as “historic” by one anti-tobacco group, a Quebec judge has ordered three major cigarette companies to pay $15 billion to smokers in what is believed to be the [...]

What Hinders Implementation of the WHO FCTC Article 5.3? – The Case of South Korea (2015)

Author: Sungkyu Lee               Abstract The aims of this study are to identify what hinders implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 5.3 in Korea, and to [...]

The Extreme Profitability of the UK Tobacco Market and the Rationale for a New Tobacco Levy (2015)

Author: Anna Gilmore and Robert Branston                                     Introduction We have previously pointed towards the extreme profitability of the UK [...]

The Tobacco Industry’s Abuse of Scientific Evidence and Activities to Recruit Scientists During Tobacco Litigation (2014)

Author: Sungkyu Lee                                    South Korea’s state health insurer, the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS), is in the process [...]

Tobacco Industry Argues Domestic Trademark Laws and International Treaties Preclude Cigarette Health Warning Labels, Despite Consistent Legal Advice that the Argument is Invalid (2014)

Authors: Eric Crosbie and Stanton A Glantz Abstract Objectives: To analyse the tobacco industry’s use of international trade agreements to oppose policies to strengthen health warning labels (HWLs). Design: A review of tobacco industry documents, [...]

The Global Tobacco Litigation Initiative: An Effort to Protect Developing Countries from Big Tobacco (2014)

Author: Mohammed Al-hamdani Abstract The tobacco industry faces challenges in the affluent world,  but preys upon poor and populous countries, taking advantage if underdeveloped tobacco policies. One of the ways to address tobacco control globally [...]

Estimating the Proportion of Cases of Lung Cancer Legally Attributable to Smoking: A Novel Approach for Class Actions Against the Tobacco Industry (2014)

Authors: Jack Siemiatycki et al.                            Abstract Objectives: The plaintiffs’ lawyers for a class action suit, which was launched in Quebec on behalf [...]

Preemption: The Biggest Challenge to Tobacco Control (2014)

Read more: Tobacco Control Legal Consortium                          [...]

All Provinces Can Now Sue Big Tobacco (2014)

Nova Scotia has officially become the last province in Canada to proclaim legislation giving it the legal green light to sue tobacco companies for unlawful activities alleged to increase smoking rates. Minister of Health and [...]

Big Tobacco “Pull Out All Stops” for a Landmark Example: The Burswood Casino Case (2011)

Authors: Laura Bond, Julia Stafford and Mike Daube Abstract Background: With the aid of internal tobacco industry documents, this paper provides a chronology of events documenting the role of the Philip Morris tobacco company in [...]

Open Doorway to Truth: Legacy of the Minnesota Tobacco Trial (2009)

Authors: Richard Hurt et al. Abstract More than a decade has passed since the conclusion of the Minnesota tobacco trial and the signing of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) by 46 US State Attorneys General [...]

Tobacco Industry Litigation Strategies to Oppose Tobacco Control Media Campaigns (2006)

Authors: J K Ibrahim and Stanton Glantz                                                       Abstract Objective: [...]

The Role of Tobacco Advertising and Promotion: Themes Employed in Litigation by Tobacco Industry Witnesses (2006)

Author: Marvin Goldberg, Ronald Davis, Anne Marie O’Keefe Abstract Objectives: To identify key themes related to tobacco advertising and promotion in testimony provided by tobacco industry-affiliated witnesses in tobacco litigation, and to present countervailing evidence [...]

Policy Lessons from Comparing Mortality from Two Global Forces: International Terrorism and Tobacco (2006)

Authors: George Thomson and Nick Wilson Abstract The aim of this study was to compare the mortality burdens from two global impacts on mortality: international terrorism and the major cause of preventable death in developed [...]

The Role of Litigation in Tobacco Control (2006)

Author: Marlo Miura, Richard Daynard and Jonathan Samet Abstract 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 [...]

“The Doctors’ Choice Is America’s Choice”: The Physician in US Cigarette Advertisements, 1930-1953 (2006)

Authors: Martha Gardner and Allan Brandt                                               In the 1930s and 1940s, smoking became [...]

Tobacco Industry Litigation Strategies to Oppose Tobacco Control Media Campaigns (2006)

Authors: J K Ibrahim and Stanton Glantz Abstract 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 [...]

The “Global Settlement” With the Tobacco Industry: 6 Years Later (2004)

Authors: Michael Givel and Stanton Glantz On June 20, 1997 a group | Michael Givel, PhD, and Stanton A. Glantz, PhD of attorneys and health advocates proposed a “global settlement” of all public and private [...]

Corporations That Kill: The Criminal Liability of Tobacco Manufacturers (2002)

Authors: Jonathan Liberman and Jonathan Clough Abstract In April 2002 British American Tobacco Australia became the first tobacco company in Australia to be ordered to pay compensation to a person dying of smoking-related illness. In [...]

People Can Still Sue Tobacco Companies Over Health

January 17, 2017      The proposed $49 billion acquisition by British American Tobacco PLC (NYSEMKT: BTI) of the 58% of Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) that it does not already own will, if approved, [...]

The Role of Public Law-based Litigation in Tobacco Companies’ Strategies in High-income, FCTC Ratifying Countries, 2004–14 (2016)

Authors: Sarah Steele et al.  Background: Tobacco companies use a host of strategies to undermine public health efforts directed to reduce and eliminate smoking. The success, failure and trends in domestic litigation used by tobacco [...]