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Canada's National Non-Smoking Week began Sunday, Jan 15

It's all over but the remedying! The 11-year saga of the DOJ RICO suit was partially ended at the Supreme Court. The tobacco defendants were found guilty of racketeering, but will pay no monetary penalty. The case is back in Judge Kessler's DC District Court for implementation of court-ordered remedies in light of a number of new developments.
Late-Breaking DOJ Trial News is here: http://www.tobacco.org/articles/lawsuit/doj/
Visit: http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com.

Latest Top Tobacco Headlines

Latest Quotes

  • “It's like walking into a crime scene.”
    Dr. Farrah Kheradmand, professor of medicine and immunology at BCM and a senior author of the report that tracks the destructive path of tobacco smoke through the body's tissues, as it activates genes and changes immune cells to create inflammation that results in emphysema.
    » Mapping the destructive path from cigarette to emphysema, EurekAlert (Wednesday, January 18, 2012)
  • “Smoking breaks cost employers money, and they hinder the working process.”
    Mario Ohoven, President of the German Association of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (BVMW).
    » German employers split over campaign to ban smoking breaks, DW World (Deutsche Welle) (de) (Saturday, January 14, 2012)
  • “But banning all smoking breaks during working hours in general would be a step toward a dictatorship of non-smokers.”
    Karl Lauterbach, a senior opposition Social Democrat health expert.
    » German employers split over campaign to ban smoking breaks, DW World (Deutsche Welle) (de) (Saturday, January 14, 2012)
  • “If you want to live longer and healthier than the average American, then come to New York City.”
    NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
    » MAYOR BLOOMBERG, DEPUTY MAYOR GIBBS, HEALTH COMMISSIONER FARLEY ANNOUNCE NEW YORKERS LIVING LONGER THAN EVER, OUTPACING NATIONAL TREND, New York City: NYC.gov (Tuesday, December 27, 2011)
  • “Plaintiffs have demonstrated a substantial likelihood that they will prevail on the merits of their position that these mandatory graphic images unconstitutionally compel speech. ”
    U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, who granted tobacco companies' request for a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of FDA warning labels.
    » ANA Applauds Court Decision Enjoining FDA’s Graphic Warnings Rule for Tobacco Products, Association of National Advertisers (Monday, November 7, 2011)
  • “Over forty years' experience with small, obscurely placed text-only warning labels on cigarette packs has demonstrated that they simply do not work. The warning labels reflect the unique magnitude of the problem they address, the deadly and addictive nature of the product, and the unparalleled threat this product and its marketing pose to America's youth.”
    24 attorneys general, in a friend of the court brief on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington in support of the FDA's challenge of a lower court ruling in the case.
    » Several US states weigh in on cigarette label suit, Associated Press (AP) (Saturday, December 24, 2011)
  • “This agreement helps make sure that these documents will be accessible to researchers, journalists, students, lawyers, the government and the public at large — anyone who is interested in learning more about the defendants' efforts to mislead consumers about the effects of smoking.”
    Tony West, assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, on the agreement for UCSF to manage the secret document online database.
    » Justice Dept settles with tobacco cos on database, Associated Press (AP) (Wednesday, December 14, 2011)
  • “This book is a remarkable compendium of evil. It will keep you spinning from page one through the last. … It is the type of book that makes you wonder how, in God's name, this could have happened.”
    Columbia's David Rosner, on Robert Proctor's new book, the bombshell, "Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition."
    » Tobacco industry dying? Not so fast, says Stanford expert, Stanford Law & Policy Review (Monday, December 12, 2011)
  • “[Smoke detectors] did not go off on Friday as some doctors and hospital staffers, during their night duty on Thursday, turned off the main switch connecting all smoke alarms so that they could light up indoors.”
    Unidentified investigator of the Kolkata hospital fire that killed 93.
    » Smokers turned off detectors at AMRI hospital , Hindustan Times (Monday, December 12, 2011)
  • “We would again like to state that there is no biological proof that smoking is causally related to the diseases and conditions claimed to be statistically associated with smoking ... no proof that the tar and nicotine levels in smoke are significant in relation to health.”
    1967 Philip Morris statement made on behalf of the Board of Directors"--including soon-to-be-Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.
    » The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You, AlterNet.org (Tuesday, December 6, 2011)
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