Jessica Miller | March 14, 2012
Despite mounting evidence in the 1960s that smoking tobacco was killing more than 30,000 people in Canada every year, Canada’s largest tobacco company made no effort to inform the public about the dangers of its products, a former Imperial Tobacco executive testified Tuesday in the $27-billion class-action lawsuit against the nation’s three largest tobacco companies. Michel Descoteaux, who for years served as Imperial’s official spokesman, said the company’s policy was to claim that there was no scientific evidence linking smoking to disease.
Category: American Tobacco Company, Smoke-Free Regulation |
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Tags: smoking products, tobaco company
Jessica Miller | March 9, 2012
It has taken 13 years, but the first class-action trial against Canada’s tobacco titans will finally get under way Monday with some two million Quebecers claiming an unprecedented $27 billion in damages they suffered after taking up smoking. It is considered the biggest lawsuit ever to make it to trial in Canada. An army of lawyers and experts, with an arsenal of millions of pages of documents – including internal top-secret industry papers – will settle into a room in Quebec Superior Court in a case in which the plaintiffs’ evidence alone is expected to take a year to present.
Category: American Tobacco Company, Tobacco Control Law |
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Tags: tobacco firms
Jessica Miller | March 1, 2012
Value supplement of tobacco remains the aspect that must be developed to further strengthen the fighting industry to remain a strong contributor to the state economy. Malawi Leaf Company General Manager, Jimmy Kasamale said recently that there is a need for a severe approach by the stakeholders to develop cigarettes making industry within the tobacco company. “Malawi has a strong agriculture sector but that is not translated into strong manufacturing industry in spite of the abundant resources. If we develop the cigarette industry the state economy can benefit more than just exporting the raw tobacco,” reported Kasamale.
Category: American Tobacco Company, Cigarettes Business |
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Tags: cigarette industry, tobacco exports
Jessica Miller | February 9, 2012
A Portland jury is reconsidering a $100 million damage award against Philip Morris in a suit over low-tar cigarettes that goes back more than a decade. In 2002, a jury awarded $150 million in punitive damages after finding Philip Morris deceived Michelle Schwarz of Salem into thinking low-tar cigarettes were a healthier alternative. In appeals, the amount was reduced by $50 million, and then the award was sent back for reconsideration. The Oregonian reports the case could be another windfall for Oregon’s crime victim compensation fund, which reaped millions after the conclusion of a suit a Portland janitor’s family filed against Philip Morris.
Category: American Tobacco Company, Cigarette Business |
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Tags: philip morris cigarettes, smoking alternative
Jessica Miller | January 13, 2012
The Australian government on Friday hit out at British American Tobacco for using images of kangaroos to sell its cheap Cigaronne cigarettes in Europe, telling the company to “get your hands off our icons”. BAT, which is battling Canberra over moves towards plain packaging in Australia, is selling its Winfield brand overseas with a picture of a kangaroo on the front and a map of Australia on the back.
Category: American Tobacco Company, Tobacco Sales |
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Tags: cheap cigaronne cigarettes, smoking rates
