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• Who is Marie Evans?

  Armand Rossetti | February 10, 2007 2:32 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  In 1957, if you asked anyone at the top at Lorillard Tobacco in North Carolina, who Marie Evans was, you probably would have gotten a response, "I don't know; Never heard of her." But she was a real nine-year-old little black girl, innocently playing with other kids, hundreds of miles away, at the Orchard Park housing complex in Roxbury, Massachusetts, a poor community in Boston. One Lorillard...

• Is Secondhand Smoke Setting Future Consumers Up For the Kill?

  Armand Rossetti | February 07, 2007 7:34 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  Currently, smoke-free laws are in place in several states and thousands of U.S. communities. Smoke-free statutes and ordinances now protect over 50% of the U.S. population. But what about millions of children who are exposed to secondhand smoke on a daily basis? After decades of court battles against tobacco companies, the first battle occurring in 1954, are they still capitalizing on these...

• Big Tobacco, Scorched Earth Tactics & the Engle Case

  John Hopkins | February 06, 2007 5:05 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  The Florida Supreme Court has issued its mandate in the Engle v Liggett case. This case involved a class action by Florida smokers against Big Tobacco. Florida smokers who qualify as "Engle class members" must now take some action against Big Tobacco in less than one year. The Supreme Court made certain findings of fact and law that may place Big Tobacco at a distinct disadvantage and Florida...