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Australia Proposes Tough Cigarette Packaging Rules
Posted on 8 Apr 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

SYDNEY - (AP) Tobacco companies in Australia will be forced to strip all logos from their cigarette packages and replace them with graphic images such as cancer-riddled mouths and sickly children under legislation unveiled Thursday a move the government... Read More

Tags: Advertising , Roxon , cigarette packaging , Marketing , smoking , Australia , Litigation , tobacco advertising , British American Tobacco , Cancer Council Australia , cigarette , tobacco

U.S. High Court Won't Review RICO Fraud Remedies In Tobacco Cases
Posted on 29 Jun 2010 by Gerald C. Matics

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court declined June 28 to review an appellate decision upholding most of the remedies imposed on the tobacco industry by the federal judge who found it liable for a decades-long pattern of fraud and deception... Read More

Tags: R.J. Reynolds , Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations , Lorillard , Philip Morris , RICO , Altria , personal injury , cigarettes , American Lung Association , Judge Gladys Kessler , light , American Cancer Society , smoking , tar , Litigation , Tobacco-Free Kids Action , lawsuit , British American Tobacco , Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights , National African American Tobacco Prevention Network , nicotine , U.S. Supreme Court , American Heart Association , torts , tobacco

Judge Orders Tobacco Companies To Advertise Risks Of Smoking
Posted on 29 Nov 2012 by Michael Lefkowitz

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) A District of Columbia federal judge on Nov. 27 released the language tobacco companies will be required to include in corrective statements in newspaper and television advertisements, on their websites and in cigarette... Read More

Tags: Lorillard Tobacco LLC , U.S.A. v. Philip Morris USA Inc. , cigarettes , tobacco companies , smoking , Altria Group , Litigation , tobacco advertising , cigarette advertising , British American Tobacco , U.S. Judge Gladys Kessler , Philip Morris USA , R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. , tobacco