Capitol offensives: will the state attorneys general be able to do what no private lawyer has ever done, make the tobacco industry pay out its first dime in damages?

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The tobacco industry was for many years able to repel all litigation but in 1996 suffered several setbacks. The Liggett Group, the country's fifth-largest cigarette maker, became the first to agree to settle a smoking-related suit. There is an FDA proposal to regulate nicotine as a drug and the suits filed by at least 18 states and more than a dozen localities to recoup from the tobacco industry the costs of treating Medicaid patients with smoking-related illnesses could, if successful, bankrupt the industry.

Cigarette Manufacturing, Health aspects, United States, Finance, Medicaid, Cigarettes, states

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Second-hand smoke suit; flight attendants blame tobacco companies for cancer, risk of illness

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A group of non-smoking flight attendants has filed the first passive smoking suit against the tobacco industry, claiming ill effects from breathing second-hand smoke on airplanes. Lead counsel Stanley Rosenblatt is armed with a study showing that flight attendants passively smoke as much as anyone living with a pack-per-day smoker. His lead plaintiff, Norma Broin, a former college athlete, lost her job and one lung to cancer.

Passive smoking, Flight attendants

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Cigarette maker wins suit; plaintiff claimed cancer caused by Kent's former asbestos filter

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Peter Ierardi's case against Lorillard Inc., charging that his cancer resulted from smoking Kent cigarettes with asbestos filters in the 1950s, stalled because he was unable to prove he smoked the brand at the time. Ierardi's lawyers plan to file suit again, as the legal connection between the cigarette filters and cancer remains unexplored.

Asbestos, Ierardi, Peter, Lorillard Inc.

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