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NJ: After 20 Years, Epic Tobacco Lawsuit Settled

Liggett was one of seven lawsuits filed in the early 1980s as companion cases to one by survivors of Rose Cipollone, the New Jersey smoker whose family won the first ever liability verdict against a cigar ette manufacturer ...
The national YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, used independent three-stage cluster samples for the 1991-2003 surveys to obtain cross-sectional data representative of public and private school students in grades 9-12 in all 50 states and the District ...
The lawsuit resulted in several historic rulings and helped trigger the release of thousands of internal tobacco company documents, which have since helped plaintiffs in other cases ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...

New Evidence that Teens are Most Vulnerable to Smoking Addiction

Victory, however, can be a loosely defined term in the court system, and even more so in tobacco cases ...
During these adolescent years, major changes in the brain occur, including those involved with regulating the effects of drugs and other stimuli ...
Some young people are social smokers, lighting up only at parties or when they go out ...
Thomas Bliley, reveal evidence of coverups and suppression of scientific research to an extent not previously detailed ...

WHO Report Claims the Poor are the Biggest Victims of the Tobacco Industry

He was 55 when he died, leaving behind three daughters, an ex-wife and a second wife ...
Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of students from other racial/ethnic groups were too small for meaningful analysis ...
They might want a relatively relaxed federal law to preempt states from acting ...
These earlier studies have shown that teens develop symptoms of dependence after minimal tobacco exposure and that those who smoke daily as teens will more likely have difficulty quitting than those who start as adults ...
The slowdown on the industry would also have minimal harmful effects on farming and labor ...

U.S. Surgeon General Releases Comprehensive Report on Smoking and Health

According to Politiken, authorities in this country are already aware of several of the factors examined in the study, including the differing risks for male and female smokers ...
The National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation contributed nearly $85 million in funding support ...
Published 40 years after the surgeon general’s first report on smoking — which concluded that smoking was a definite cause of three serious diseases — this newest report finds that cigar ette smoking is conclusively linked to diseases such as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach ...
In these tests, drug injections are matched with distinctive environmental cues ...
In staving off a decision for two decades, the defendants in Haines vs ...

Surgeon General: More Diseases Linked to Smoking

Cigar ette smoking significantly harms almost every major organ of the body and has been directly linked to a new series of diseases including leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the kidney, cervix, pancreas and stomach ...
The journal article found that during the first two years of medical school when basic science is taught 54 ...
succeeded in whittling the claim down to just one defendant, and pushed Haines' first attorney off the case and to the brink of bankruptcy ...

Act of Smoking as Addictive as Nicotine

When the technician counted down Researchers follow the path of compulsion and find that the act of smoking is just as compelling as the drug ...
When a significant quadratic trend accompanied a significant linear trend, the data demonstrated a nonlinear variation (e ...
He was diagnosed with lung cancer on his birthday, May 15, and died 13 days later ...

Suit Raises Issue of Liability for Tobacco Retailers

But it said more study is needed to determine if there is the direct cause-and-effect relationship found with other cancers and leukemia ...
Such revelations won't help the embattled business as it tries to fend off continuing attacks on both legal and legislative fronts ...
AP) -- A federal appeals court trying to decide a Mobile lawsuit says it could not find any Alabama case that held retailers that sold cigar ettes responsible for smoking -related illnesses ...
The National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation contributed nearly $85 million in funding support ...

Safer Cigarettes NOT Safe

In these tests, drug injections are matched with distinctive environmental cues ...
They maintain that independent research should be done on the new cigar ettes to determine if they actually could reduce harm to smokers or work as a bridge to help the most addicted smokers quit ...
Like the others, Cipollone's case eventually crumbled in the face of endless appeals that have become the hallmark of tobacco lawsuits ...

Smoking Around Kids is "Child Abuse"

This decline is too slow to achieve the federal government's goal of reducing the number of smokers to 12 percent of the adult population by 2010 ...
When you've already been called a liar, a death merchant, a corrupter of children, and a manipulator of science, it's hard to imagine that ...
Some parents are conditioned to ignore most messages about smoking but will respond to a more assertive approach ...

Editorials Condemn Settlement of Tobacco Law Suit

Haines, a Haddonfield resident and a paralegal at a Philadelphia law firm, had been working closely with Edell's law firm on a series of asbestos liability cases ...
That pleases the cigar ette makers, who invested heavily in his election ...
Like the others, Cipollone's case eventually crumbled in the face of endless appeals that have become the hallmark of tobacco lawsuits ...