Update: Dutch Criminal Case Against Tobacco Industry Arendtm February 8, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News In September 2016, lawyer Benedicte Ficq filed a criminal case with the Dutch Public Prosecutor, alleging that four tobacco manufacturers were guilty of attempted murder, manslaughter, premeditated attempts...
PMI says they are “designing a smoke-free future,” but their actions speak the real truth Arendtm July 12, 2018 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events 1 Recently the Philippines Tobacco Institute, which represents Philip Morris International (PMI), among other tobacco companies, filed two lawsuits against the small city of Balanga in the Philippines. Litigation...
Dutch Prosecutor Rejects Tobacco Criminal Case; Many Arguments for Appeal Exist Arendtm February 22, 2018 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News 1 Statement of Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 22, 2018 – We are disappointed in the Dutch Public Prosecution Service’s (DPPS) decision not to file cri...
Tobacco firms in France cheated nicotine tests: anti-smoking body Arendtm February 14, 2018 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 Four tobacco companies operating in France manipulated tests to conceal the real level of nicotine and tar contained in cigarettes, endangering the lives of smokers, a French anti-smoking organization alleged i...
Who really won the legal battle between Philip Morris and Uruguay? Arendtm July 29, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The David-Goliath battle between Uruguay and Philip Morris is an iconic case because it so clearly illustrates the way corporations can use international investment treaties to attack regulations made in the pu...
Tony Gwynn’s Family Sues Tobacco Industry, Seeking Recourse Over Fatal Habit Arendtm May 24, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The family of Tony Gwynn, a baseball Hall of Famer who died of salivary gland cancer in 2014, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Monday against the tobacco industry, charging that Gwynn had been manipulated into th...
Manhattan Co-op Resident Wins $120K In Lawsuit Over Secondhand Smoke Infiltration Arendtm March 9, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has awarded a co-op apartment owner more than $120,000 in maintenance and fees after she sued over damage to her place from people smoking in neighboring apartments, which she sa...
Criminal Cases about Consumer Products Arendtm December 2, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates 1 The tobacco epidemic continues to spread around the world. Tobacco is unique – no other product kills half of its consumers when used exactly as intended. If tobacco products were released as new products toda...
What does peanut butter have to do with tobacco? Arendtm September 21, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates 2 Recently, a landmark case was decided in federal court in Georgia. The subject of the case? Peanut butter. The Peanut Butter Case: United States of America vs. Stewart Parnell From 2008-2009, there was an out...
Tobacco Demonstrates Troubles for Trade Agreements Arendtm June 16, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News In 2012, Australia implemented tough anti-tobacco regulations, requiring that all cigarettes be sold in plain, logo-free brown packages dominated by health warnings. Philip Morris Asia filed suit, claiming that...
Ukraine drops WTO action against Australian tobacco-packaging laws Arendtm June 3, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News (Reuters) - Ukraine has suspended a case it was pursuing through the World Trade Organization aimed at overturning Australia's strict tobacco packaging laws, a WTO panel of adjudicators said in a statement publ...
PHAI Takes Cigarette Companies to Court Arendtm March 27, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Public Health Advocacy Institute (“PHAI”) announced today that its newly formed Center for Public Health Litigation has filed lawsuits against two major tobacco companies and several local distributors on...
Leaked TPP investment chapter shows US tobacco control rules at risk Arendtm March 26, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News WASHINGTON — An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment “expectations” and hur...
New Global Fund to Help Countries Defend Smoking Laws Arendtm March 19, 2015 Featured News & Events, Related News Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Wednesday that they had started a global fund to help low- and middle-income countries fight legal challenges to their smoking l...
Time for the New “Normal” in Tobacco Packaging Arendtm March 3, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Plain Packaging Should be Universal Yesterday, Ireland became the first country in Europe and the second country in the world to pass legislation requiring plain packaging for tobacco products. Under the new r...
Tobacco Giants Battle New Ads Painting Them As Liars Arendtm February 23, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News WASHINGTON (AP) — Never underestimate the staying power of big tobacco. In 2006, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the nation's largest cigarette makers to publicly admit that they had lied for deca...
Florida Bill Seeks to Shield Tobacco Industry from Lawsuits Arendtm February 20, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The powerful cigarette industry reignited Florida’s tobacco wars Wednesday with a one-sentence bill that would strip away the right of thousands of Florida victims from collecting millions in damages.... But...
Japan Tobacco threatens Ireland over plain packaging Arendtm February 17, 2015 News & Events One of the world’s largest tobacco firms has told the Government to immediately halt plain packaging legislation in the Dáil or face a High Court claim for damages. JTI Ireland, owner of the Benson & Hedge...
Legal Victories in U.S. Tobacco Control 2014 Arendtm December 29, 2014 Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates Several cities raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21 Increasing the minimum age is very important because 95% of smokers start by their early twenties. The cities that have taken this ...
Uruguay Presents Defense Against Philip Morris Tobacco Lawsuit Arendtm November 13, 2014 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Uruguay has presented a 500 page document to defend itself against an international lawsuit challenging the country's tough tobacco packaging regulations. The claim was brought by Philip Morris, the global toba...
Tobacco Companies Reach Supreme Court To Out Throw $50B Lawsuit ash November 6, 2012 Related News Two of the largest foreign-owned tobacco companies have asked the Ontario's top court to discharge a $50-billion lawsuit instigated against them by the provincial government. According to the lawyers of British...
