Posts tagged Cigarettes

• Tobacco Companies to Kids: Be Cool, Try It!

  Brian Denney | October 05, 2009 9:33 AM | 2 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Would you believe that eating lots of apple sauce is no more dangerous than smoking cigarettes? www.youtube.com/watch Would you believe that some pregnant women like to smoke so they can have...

• Florida Legislators Holding Hands With Big Tobacco

  John Hopkins | April 29, 2009 10:04 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Toxic Substances
  

  The legislators in the house and in senate, in the Great State of Florida intend to do something unprecedented in the next few days. They intend to protect a special class of Corporate America...

• Big Tobacco's Florida Legislature

  John Hopkins | April 23, 2009 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Big Tobacco is at it again. Their lobbyists are running through the corridors of Tallahassee handing out... well, I guess, cigarettes? Whatever they are handing out, it appears to be effective. Big...

• Big Tobacco – the tangled web they weave and the practice to deceive

  John Hopkins | February 27, 2009 11:29 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  It was 1980, but this scene has been going on in “smoke filled rooms” since the early 20th century. Big Tobacco’s Kloepfer and Klopnick were hand wringing; possibly burning the...

• Big Tobacco Loses

  John Hopkins | February 12, 2009 4:51 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In a landmark victory for suffering smokers and their survivors, a Broward County jury found that cigarettes are addictive. They also found that Mr. Hess, a 40 year smoker was addicted to...

• Should Warning Labels Be Added to Strawberries?

  John Hopkins | August 24, 2008 6:28 PM | 3 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Toxic Substances
  

  Ever heard of “Polonium 210”? Think Alexander Litvinenko; the Russian dissident we all watched slowly die in 2006 after he was exposed to a toxic substance. The toxic substance to which he was...

• Pennsylvania Attorney General Tough on Joe Camel

  John Hopkins | January 10, 2008 10:02 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Daily & Sunday Review reports that Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett is one of eight attorney generals preparing to sue RJ Reynolds for violating an agreement that was part of the 1998 settlement between Big Tobacco and various states. As a part of the agreement, Big Tobacco promised not to use advertising that appealed to youth. That seems like a reasonable and moral request. Big...

• Big Tobacco Loses Again

  John Hopkins | December 12, 2007 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Big Tobacco had sought a transfer of all cases currently filed in federal courts, to a Multi-District Litigation Panel that would be located in the Middle District or Southern District of the federal court system in Florida. Today the United States Multi-District Litigation Panel issued an order that denied Big Tobacco's request for transfer and ruled that the cases can be properly handled where...

• Smokers Have Until Jan. 11, 2008 to File Suit

  Courtney Mills | November 30, 2007 3:02 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The deadline to file suit is getting closer for plaintiffs who suffered from illnesses related to smoking. Last year the Florida Supreme Court overturned a class action civil damage award of $145 billion spread among 700,000 decided in 2000, requiring instead that each smoker show that cigarettes caused the damages. Although the Supreme Court dealt a major blow to plaintiffs by overturning the...

• Big Tobacco May Find the Florida Climate Much Too Hot

  John Hopkins | September 20, 2007 10:23 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Last year, the Florida Supreme Court appeared to have done Big Tobacco a favor iwhen it ruled that the $145 billion punitive damage verdict would have to be vacated and the "Engle Class" would have to be disbanded. Ruling that plaintiffs would have to proceed in individual trials against Big Tobacco. In fact, many on Wall Street saw it as a a huge victory for Big Tobacco. So, did Big Tobacco...