The landmark 1998 settlement of state cigarette suits for $243 billion broke all records for civil litigation in the United States, yet it set an unfortunate precedent and remains widely misunderstood.
Puffing away on cigarettes, his suit forever rumpled, full of bravado yet plagued with doubts, Mr. Finley's Oppenheimer is a tragically flawed and Faustian figure who dares to push science into unknown and potentially catastrophic realms.
Like other gateway products Big Tobacco has masked to entice its next generation of smokers, e-cigarettes follow suit as its popularity with youth nationwide more than doubled from 2011 to 2012.
Big Tobacco stocks were up sharply on Thursday following the Florida Supreme Court's decision to reject $145 billion in damages awarded to plaintiffs in a protracted cigarette class-action suit.
His whole demeanor reminded me of a mafia boss, the Chinese version, with his middle-aged potbelly, incessant cigarette smoking, bad suit jacket, and the sunglasses worn at night.
Indonesia, a maker of clove cigarettes, brought the suit.
They would also be required to list all ingredients, additives and toxic chemicals and would have to disclose their marketing research and how the cigarettes are made.The suit is particularly aimed at curbing smoking among the young.
At the Republican Convention in July of 1964, ugly, public battles ensued over the civil-rights plank; Rockefeller spoke of moderation and was booed; television reporters were shoved around; Goldwater delegates put out their cigarettes on the suit of an elderly black Republican; and the nominee himself, famously, put in a good word for extremism.
Minutes after the province filed its suit, the cigarette manufacturers filed their own suit.
