BAT Admits Breach Of Its Marketing Code
Following the release of ASH's report - "You've got to be kidding" [1] - into the way BAT markets its
cigarettes to young people around the world, the company has acknowledged in a letter to ASH that it has started an investigation into the marketing br
read more ...05/23/07
Former smoker battling back from throes of lung diseaseJames "JC" Taylor can remember every brand of
cigarettes from Pall Mall to
Marlboro in the nearly half century that he smoked.
read more ...03/22/04
Arkansas Woman's Family Sued Brown & Williamson TobaccoLITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A jury deliberated all day yesterday in a lawsuit against a
tobacco company over the illness and death of an Arkansas woman, a smoker for more than three decades.
read more ...05/22/03
Fla. Court Tosses 5B Tobacco VerdictMIAMI - A Florida appellate court on Wednesday tossed out a record-setting 5 billion verdict for thousands of Florida
smokers against the
tobacco industry, saying the case should not have been tried as a class-action lawsuit.
read more ...05/21/03
Trial begins against tobacco companiesTwenty years after snuffing out his last cigarette, quitting his three-pack-a-day habit cold turkey, Miami lawyer John Lukacs learned he had bladder cancer.
read more ...05/30/02