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Dirk Hanson

Articles and health studies about drugs, addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.

Showing posts with label tobacco litigation. Show all posts

Showing posts with label tobacco litigation. Show all posts

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Tobacco Industry Loses Crucial Court Case

Jury awards $8 million to widow of addicted smoker. In a court decision that attorneys for Philip Morris called “profoundly flawed,” a Flori...

Monday, December 29, 2008

Tobacco Settlement Turned Upside Down

“Tobacco bonds” link state budgets to cigarette sales. Bob Sullivan of MSNBC reports that ten years after a group of states wrestled Big To...

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Supreme Court Lights Up

Unlikely to let states sue over low tar cigarettes . Can states sue tobacco companies for marketing one of the most addictive products known...

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