Lifting clouds: new tactics at Philip Morris help stem tide of lawsuits

Article Abstract:

Cigarette maker Philip Morris Companies Inc. has been subject to numerous cases filed against it due to the negative health effects of cigarette smoking. Thanks to a new legal strategy that has been spearheaded by associate general counsel William Ohlemeyer, and a lobbying campaign that now allows the company to save on the previously exorbitant costs for making legal appeals, Philip Morris has seen a 60% drop in the number of lawsuits it currently faces.

Legal issues & crime, Management dynamics, Product Liability, Executive changes & profiles, Securities issued, listed, TOBACCO PRODUCTS, Legal/Government Regulation, Tobacco farms, Management, Officials and employees, Class actions (Civil procedure), Company legal issue, Cases, Class action lawsuits, Political activity, Practice, Securities, Smokers, Products liability, Company business management, Company securities, Company public relations, Civil RICO actions, Ohlemeyer, William S., Wilkinson, Beth, Reller, Frederic, Piuze, Michael, Wells, Theodore V., Jr.

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Race to Produce Safer Cigarette Heats Up

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Tobacco companies Philip Morris Companies Inc., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., Brown and Williamson Industries Inc. and Vector Group Ltd. are accelerating research towards finding a safer cigarette. Their new product would have less chemicals, or, chemicals to reduce carcinogens, genetically modified tobacco leaf, or that is heated rather than burns when smoked.

Product development, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., Brown & Williamson Industries Inc., Vector Group Ltd., BGL

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Philip Morris apologizes for report

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A top Philip Morris Cos. official has apologized for a company-funded report in the Czech Republic that considered cost savings from the early deaths of smokers one of the "positive effects" of consuming cigarettes.

Marketing procedures, Czech Republic, Corporate Images

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