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...however, the anti-tobacco forces are taking a page from the cigarette makers' own playbook. "This king-of-the-mountain game they've played is a game that would be played by a schoolyard bully," says Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, chair of the Tobacco Products Liability Project, which conducts research for anti-tobacco lawsuits. "After you've beaten a couple of kids up, nobody dares take you on. But the moment the kids say, 'We can take him if we band together,' the bully is finished." It helps too that the new legal strategy of states filing third...
...attorneys from such white-shoe firms as King & Spalding in Atlanta, Covington & Burling in Washington and the Kansas City firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, this new assault amounts to a dangerous game of dominoes. "The moment they lose one the other states are going to have to file," says Daynard. "Imagine being the attorney general of a state and saying while my neighboring attorney general is getting $400 million in restitution for the taxpayers of his state, I am not going to file as a matter of principle. At that point, you'd very quickly get a lot more cases...
...disturbing trends. After falling for decades, the percentage of Americans who smoke has leveled off at 25%, and the proportion of young people who pick up the habit is starting to rise again. An estimated 3,000 U.S. children begin smoking each day. Says Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, who hopes Congress and the FDA will join forces to reduce tobacco use: "No one wants to make people hooked on cigarettes suffer. We just want to make sure they are not followed by future generations...
...Daynard in December wrote Graham a letter andformally asked her to resign from the advisoryboard. He charged that RJ Reynolds was trying to"insinuate itself into the schools" through theNext Century Schools Fund...
...think on balance RJR has made a carefulbusiness decision because it will earn more than$30 million by undermining the anti-smokingmessage coming out of the schools," Daynard latertold The Crimson...