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Links:

Mesothelioma and Asbestos Awareness Center
http://www.maacenter.org

Mesothelioma and Asbestos Awareness Center
http://www.maacenter.org

Mesothelioma Aid
Mesothelioma is a form of lung cancer. This site is designed to help cancer patients and their families live with the disease and make the most of their situations. Topics covered include: how people can talk to their doctors, information on pain management, financial planning and insurance considerations. Also contains a valuable list of cancer centers in the United States and contacts for arranging travel to and lodging near these centers.
http://www.mesothelioma-aid.org

Message to Teenagers about Smoking
From-the-heart straight-shooting by Mark Perkel. Leave it to the non-professionals to say it best. Most fascinating are the responses, many from teens.
http://www.perkel.com/politics/issues/smoke.htm

The Lesko Brothers Home Page
One's 6! One's 9! Just to show how easy it is, they buy cigarettes from vending machines all the time! Morgan & Max have a most spectacular page! Join their cause.
http://www.cquest.com/LeskoBrothers.html

How Not to Pass a Smoking Control Ordinance
--a toungue-in-cheek tipsheet.
http://www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/ordinanc.htm

"Astro-turf"
reprinted fromt the Marin County Pacific Sun, and
http://www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/astrotrf.htm

Secondhand Smoke and Community Laws
Useful links and references.
http://www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/smoking.htm

Walt Bilofsky's site
Famed activist, with some important articles:
http://www.toolworks.com/bilofsky/

The Doonesbury Page!
What's up, Mr. Butts?
http://www.doonesbury.com/

Nicotine Researcher Jed Harris' WebPage
http://web.mit.edu/jeffrey/harris/

Dr. Bob's Quit Smoking Page
Info, and lots of subject-oriented links.
http://www.unm.edu/~shubinsk/smoke.html

STAMP Stop Tobacco Abuse of Minors Project
Download a screensaver to receive kids' artwork
http://tobacco.stamp.org/

Humor: Joe Camel Win95 & Mac Joke Wallpaper
http://www.jokewallpaper.com/whatsnew.htm

HUMOR: "Suicide Agreement" Reportedly Breaks Log Jam In Tobacco Settlement Talks
One of a series of humorous tobacco-related articles on the Samizdat Online page

"What we are proposing," said Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore, "is that the negotiators for the tobacco industry demonstrate their good faith and remorse for having profited at the expense of the damaged health and well-being of Americans for decades by killing themselves."

sXe Haligua sXe
Straightedge hardcore rock band

In basic terms someone who is sXe is someone who doesn't drink, smoke, do drugs or engage in promiscuous sex. . . All 3 members of HALIGUA are proud to be sXe. . . . We feel smoking is probably the most stupid and pointless activity ever. . . We feel such strong hatred for the tobacco industry and their evil ads that glamourize smoking.

The Ross McElwee Site
Filmaker with roots back to original Bull Durham is doing a documentary on tobacco.

In the 1870s, J.H. McElwee & Partners invented, and were first to market, the now-famous BULL DURHAM brand of tobacco. But McElwee's wealthy competitors stole the trademark... and later SOLD OUT to the dastardly DUKE family! Now McElwee's GREAT-GRANDSON -North Carolina filmmaker ROSS McELWEE - is making a film about this SORDID CHAPTER in his family's history. Any NORTH CAROLINA NATIVE with INFORMATION, FAMILY CONNECTIONS, RUMORS or GOSSIP about the Bull Durham legacy: contact Ross McElwee IMMEDIATELY! McElwee also wants to hear from North Carolinia natives about current attitudes toward tobacco - PRO & CON - including SMOKER'S RIGHTS, the PLEASURES of SMOKING, and the PAINS of TRYING TO QUIT! Have a TALE TO TELL? contact McElwee by... Mail: 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Telephone: 617-496-6606 E-mail: mcelwee@fas.harvard.edu.

FAST: Fight Against Smoking Team

David and Priscilla Seuss (founders of Spinnaker Software) take the fight to the racetracks! Sponsorship, anyone?
http://www.fight-smoking-team.org/

OPINION: Smoking More These Days?
Dr. Charles E. Cravey posits an industry plot to decrease nicotine levels. Contraband Magazine. Curio value only.

To the person who finds himself smoking more, now you know the reason. You have been duped! Your lifestyle, your habits, and your mind have been manipulated by these companies.

Anti-Tobacco Billboards
Humor from Bill Levinson
http://www.ganesha.org/ptb/tobacco.html

Cut Lung Cancer in Half
A T-shirt transfer design from Ralph Carter
http://www.webcom.com/ddikes/fmanpg1.html

Don't Get Sucked In
RFA Digital of Trenton, NJ has a nice anti-smoking site for teens.
http://www.dontgetsuckedin.com/

Samantha, The Smoking Skunk

Samantha Skunk has taken on Joe Camel by encouraging children not to smoke. Samantha Skunk and the "uncool" smoking camels, Stu and Stela Stench, were created by Professor of Business, William Scott, at the University of New Hampshire. He was inspired to create Samantha as a "no smoking" symbol by his daughter who suffers from asthma. Now Samantha Skunk us delivering that message personally to as many children as possible. This unique program is the first to bring pre-school and primary school children an anti-smoking message they can easily remember.

IMPERIAL Out
Terry Polevoy's colorful response to the Canadian tobacco co.'s announcement.
http://www.healthwatch.org/Racing/ra-imperial-out.html

Jean Kilbourne

Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. (JKilbourne@aol.com) is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. A widely published writer and speaker who has twice been named Lecturer of the Year by the National Association of Campus Activities, she is best known for her award-winning documentaries Killing Us Softly, Slim Hopes, and Pack of Lies. She is a visiting scholar at Wellesley College, has served on the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and been an adviser to two surgeons general. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Early, Ludwick & Sweeney L.L.C.
Tobacco litigation law firm. Only if your'e in New York State.
http://www.elslaw.com/index.html

RFPs
http://www.tobaccowars.com/tw2_currents.asp?area=2

Tobacco Week
Some nice info, news, links. From PICS (LifeSign computer)
http://www.tobaccowars.com/tw2_currents.asp?area=0

PICS, the LifeSign Stop Smoking Computer
people, have a Tobacco Wars Site Now updated twice a week; plus, they Provide smokers and their family members with an opportunity to register their claims to quit with settlement funds, should a Castano settlement come through. They claim to have over 1 million names (!). Also, PICS has developed a news site, TobaccoWeek.com
http://www.lifesign.com/

Broin v. Philip Morris.
The class action on behalf of current and former flight attendants injured by exposure to secondhand smoke in airline cabins

http://www.kinsella.com/broin/

Engle v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco et al.
the Class Action against tobacco companies on behalf of Florida smokers and survivors of smokers who have or had a medical condition or disease caused by addiction to cigarettes that contain nicotine.
http://www.kinsella.com/engle/

How and Why you should Sue Big Tobacco
From ASH

As a public service to help victims of the tobacco industry learn whether they can bring a potential law suit, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), a 32-year old national legal-action charitable organization entirely supported by tax-deductible contributions, has compiled a list of most of the attorneys in this country involved in law suits against big tobacco. The entire list of over 200 attorneys, together with information on contacting lawyers to inquire about a potential law suit against a tobacco company, can be found by clicking on the link below. Please note, however, that this information is available only to member-supporters of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). . . Once you have become a member of ASH, you can access the list of anti-tobacco lawyers and the advice for contacting them by clicking on the following web site: http://ash.org/protect/sue-tobacco-companies-page.html

AttorneyFind Directory of Law Firms and Attorneys
You can search for a product liability lawyer in your state here.
http://www.attorneyfind.com/

Syllabus
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1038.ZS.html

Blackmum and Kennedy
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1038.ZX1.html

Scalia and Thomas
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1038.ZX2.html

Supreme Court Cipollone Decision
(Justice Stevens).
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1038.ZO.html

U.S. Supreme Court: CIPOLLONE v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., 505 U.S. 504 (1992)

Supreme Court Cipollone documents

Joe D'Addario's CyberLaw Page: Tobacco
Aggragation of articles with a legal focus. You can pick up some older Law Journal Extra, NY Times and Wall Street Journal stories here.
http://www.productslaw.com/index.html#tobacco

Grady Carter Trial Site!
Many source materials directly from the trial--"a case overview, the actual verdict, legal team biographies, a look at what the tobacco companies knew, what they were telling the public, what the medical research showed, a chronology pertaining to warning labels, and a special section on what the labels should be telling us about the hazards of cigarette smoking."
http://www.bottary.com/

COURTTV: Widdick v. Brown & Williamson Corp. and Liggett Group
Great--and only--daily report of the trial. You can see some fascinating video clips of the trial at CourtTV
http://www.courttv.com/trials/tobacco/verdict.html

The State of Minnesota and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota vs. Philip Morris Inc., et al
The official court site
http://www.courts.state.mn.us/districts/second/tobacco/orders.ht...

Any Day Now
You've heard of fighting lawsuits in the press--Lori Denise Rhoads takes her upcoming Maryland suit, Rhoads v. FDIC, to the web in a site designed like jewelry. Very nice indeed. (The suit involves ETS and alleges violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act.)
http://www.anydaynow.com/

National Tobacco Settlement
One Legal Info is a consortium of Castano law firms. Site sections include: What is the NTS?, Castano timeline, attorney referrals, contact congress, news archives, bookstore

The One Legal Info National Tobacco Settlement (NTS) Web site is the number one resource for those individuals who feel they may fit into the class description for the National Tobacco Settlement. Our organization was founded with the intention of helping those who may have been victimized by the tobacco industry. One Legal Info's staff of tobacco litigation experts have created a NTS Information Kit that can be purchased at this Web site to provide you with the following:

FLORIDA Court System
http://www.flcourts.org/courts/index.html

Court & Court-Related Websites
including international sites, and the National Center for State Courts
http://www.ncsc.dni.us/court/sites/courts.htm

Law Journal Extra's Tobacco Litigation News Site
http://www.ljx.com/litigation/bacpage.htm

Economic Damages and the Tobacco Litigation
Source documents, in PDF format

This web page provides access to public documents pertaining to the calculation of economic damages from tobacco. Many documents are still under seal, and will be released when allowed. These documents are being used for classroom case studies at the The Darla Moore School of Business, USC and elsewhere.

Tobacco Industry Litigation Reporter
. Andrews' reports are it for legal data.
http://www.andrewspub.com/tobacco1.htm

Racketeering legal action (RICO) against tobacco companies for smuggling
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/smuggling/html/ricomenu.html

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